Aeronaut wrote: Sure can, Allan- a really long-lived plasmoid might last 10nS. Perhaps 4 to 8 nS could be a more realistic timeframe at the moment.
Thanks Aeronaut, thats very promising because as I pointed out a couple of posts ago, the travel time to the coil is around 500ns, so from the short burst, the ions will automatically arrive in sorted order, fastest first, at least giving us a fighting chance of devising an efficient energy collection system.
