Reply To: X-ray cooling?

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I just had an idea in the shower, maybe this could be a workable approach?

Take a target of fuel and cool it to very low temperature so its thermal velocity is low. Keep it cold.

Then direct a stream of fuel ions of precise velocity at the target in a vaccum. Some will fuse, releasing heat and X rays.

The heat is waste, it heats up your target and must be eliminated. However the X-ray is your energy you capture, using Eric’s metal foil concentric spheres approach to get an electric current directly. This powers the cooling and ion gun and the pumps needed to recycle the gas that doesn’t fuse.

The whole thing is very stable and completely controllable. Nothing to wear out.

-Dave