Reply To: Physics Nobel to Big Bangers

[Aeronaut]

Brian H wrote: IIRC, Eric was talking about Hz on the order of 1500+ or so initially, with 25MW output — limited by cooling efficiency, not anode length. Electrode cooling with a micron-thick layer should be fairly trivial to engineer, IMO. The coating can be made of just about any molecule/material that can be structured into a ‘forest’ of vertical chains, so X-ray transparency should also be easy enough to manage. And every bit of recovered heat adds to the ‘profit’, so I am sure Q can be hugely increased.

Yes, the patent referred to 1khz, in the context of upper cooling limit perception at that time. The real engineering feat in the onion is to support, cool, and wire the whole contraption for a stream of pulses over 1MW each. I suspect your cooling proposal may have a similar wiring challenge.