Reply To: What can we do with $189 Billion?

[markus7]

asymmetric_implosion wrote: Sorry for the terribly slow reply. I wish I could say I meant the spelling but I R an engineer. 🙂

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The FoFu approach….If one is to produce GigaGauss fields something has to happen that does not happen in a conventional plasma focus geometry. The filaments could be key to the FoFu approach. The measurements of magnetic fields in the pinch geometry is challenging but I do know a technique that is being developed base upon the deflection of a high energy proton beam passing through the pinch. I don’t know if the spatial resolution will be enough for the plasmoid but time will tell. I’ll be honest, I am very skeptical. Time will tell.

Glad to hear $50K is not too big in your mind. I think the materials testing could be taken a long way with $50K.

Thanks for the short list on diagnostics. It is valuable to have someone knowledgeable point one in the right direction.

I remember reading that a field the order of a Gigagauss is needed for LPP’s approach. I assume “measuring” such a field would have to be done indirectly and might be better called “estimating”.