Reply To: Peak Oil from Truth Out

[JimmyT]

Are you sure about this? I believe that only the central electrode is to be made of Be. The plasmoid is actually inside a dimple in the central electrode for most (All?) of it’s life. Therefore high x-ray or gama ray absorption is of paramount importance there. Also the thin cross section of the outer electrodes will not avail them to cooling as readily as the central electrode.

While I think the outer electrodes will be made of tungsten in the production models as well as this test model, they will be shorter. So will weigh a bit less. And that was my question. How much does this and production model’s tungsten electrode weigh?

Maybe Eric needs to weigh in on this to get a definitive answer.