vansig wrote: let’s imagine that if there’s even a single atomic layer of erosion per shot, that it would be in nanometer scale thicknesses; then a million shots later, we’re up to millimeter scale, and that could be quite significant.
1) Would a beryllium anode erode faster or slower than a copper anode?
2) Why can’t engineers use a secondary magnetic field localized to move the electron beam in a random direction, so it would take several thousands (if not millions) of shots before the beam hit the anode on the same spot twice?
3) How much reduction in the electron beam energy does the quantitative theory say will occur when using pB11 that absorbs most of the electrons to reheat the plasma? What percentage of electron energy compared to current levels of erosion using DD?
