The next questions (in addition to the ones in my last post) for me are:
1) What percentage of the energy output are the x-rays? That is, in terms of the output of heat and various energies the fusion reaction gives off, what percentage of that energy is represented by x-rays.
2) Secondly, is the 80% figure for the onion capturing the x-rays realistic?
Is the answer that x-rays aren’t a majority of the power output of the fusion reaction (maybe because heat is too) – and additionally – that the onion can’t capture nearly 80% of the x-ray’s power? If that’s the case, then FF needs a different design.
I know that FF has been tested, so what are the numbers for the various forms of energy – and their proportions to one another – that the fusion reaction gave off?
P.S. This raises the question for me:
“What are all of the various types of energy a fusion reaction can produce?” heat, high energy rays (x-rays), etc… So can the primary byproduct of a fusion reaction be on a much lower band of the EM spectrum? Would this help conversion to electricity? (I found something called EMP fusion, but it doesn’t seem to be what I was looking for.)