Reply To: Peak Oil from Truth Out

[JVarney]

Thankyou for your take on my protocol.
I suspect you do not appreciate the intent of the strategy identified [ probably because of poor articulation on my account] so If I may, I will try to be more coherent in the following description:-

The 50 atmos is 1000 times the current upper limit of operating range of 0.03 to 0.05 atmos.
As retardation of plasma formation [movement along anode] is most likely in some mathmatical relationship with the fill gas pressure [linear or non-linear], then, at a preferred and pre-selected ion beam pulse frequency, one must apply sufficient energy to the plasma forming sheath to achieve the necessary velocity [of movement down a somewhat shortened anode] to maintain that pre-selected pulse frequency and thus the healthy transit thru each phase of its cycle.
As pressure of fill gas proceeds upwards from its initial start-up value of 0.05 atmos., the energy of the charge will be appropriately increased to maintain pulse rate of ion beam, by [a] increasing charge frequency i.e from 1 to 2 cycles, then 2 to 3 cycles, then 3 to 4 cycles and so on. at the same time, especially in the early stages of pressurization [i.e from 1 charge cycle to 2 charge cycles] by manipulating the charge voltage to obtain as good a match as possible between delivered and demand energy. In due course this difficult alignment of delivered and demand energies can be properly controlled with computor based signals [developed from experimentation with the DPF system].
We thus build pressure and maintain the time lapse between ion beam shots [pulse frequency]
It will be a learning process which will reveal the range of charge frequency and charge voltage required as pressurization proceeds. Note that multiple charge capacitors would enable [at higher charge frequencies] for each capacitor, via sequencing, to operate at more modest frequencies.
Now, as the flux of fusion events increases, the ion beam shot phase [of pulse cycle] will gradually last longer owing to lengthening decay time of conditions friendly to fusion events such that the beam shot still has its peak at pre-selected pulse rate but exhibits an after glow of decreasing strength. As one approaches target operating pressure [50 atmos.] it may be that there is no discernable gap between shots, only a shot profile that shows peaks at pulse rate with a decaying strength before rapid building to next peak.
None of us knows what will happen but the benefits of realizing a positive outcome are absolutely mind boggling and fully justify experimentation rather than searching for reasons for not trying [in accordance with pre-concieved notions of operational limitation].

John Varney