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[jamesr]

vansig wrote:
with .5 kJ in the electrons, and 1 kJ in the plasmoid, that’s 1.5 kJ;

The is total is 1kJ not 1.5kJ: The 0.5kJ in the electrons was estimated, as I understand, from the erosion from the electron beam on the anode. This means the ion beam also has 0.5kJ giving a total in the plasmoid of 1kJ before it collapsed and emitted the two beams. From the peak current they can tell how much energy was stored in the magnetic field, and so find the proportion that was focused into the plasmoid

The figure it needs to be compared against is the energy in the capacitors before the shot, which can be easily found from the voltage and capacitance Energy=0.5CV^2
I tried to see on the gallery pictures what the labels on the capacitors say they are but I can’t make it out.
But say they added up to 12uF, at 24kV charging voltage this gives 3.45kJ total. As they ramp up the charging voltage more energy will be able to be delivered into the pulse.