I’m still trying to understand some of the subtleties too (I bet we all are!), so please excuse me if this question is so bad that it isn’t even wrong …
Doesn’t conservation of momentum require a significant e-beam to balance the ion-beam from which we hope to extract significant energy? So if optimality has the e-beam energy reduced as much as possible, I’d have thought that the ion-beam is similarly down to nothing or else the plasmoid shoots sideways (or rather in FuFu, up).
I’m sure someone can set me straight. I hope to get there eventually.
Thanks
