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Vansig, we’re most likely going to need a fixed anode at the system design level, since the electrical and cooling connections are going to have to pass through the baseplate. My earlier sketches assumed 90 degree bends, but hopefully a 10 to 15cm baseplate could run the plumbing in a series of arcs past the cap(s) and switching gear. Seems like just about everything needs access to the space between the switch(es) and baseplate. :-S

For mass production we’re going to need as simple an anode design as we can get while the materials science is being proven experimentally. This is another reason for an all beryllium anode, at least until the onion’s yield approaches 4 or 5 MW, or at least shows a promising improvement curve.

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vansig wrote: how does one become an accredited investor? what’s the process?

Here’s an outline of the requirements: http://www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm

It looks to me like you get a net worth of $1M, or 2 yrs’ income of >$200k with reasonable expectations of continuing to make at least that much.

In order to do that you probably own a business, so the business options are probably the most realistic for today. These rules were drawn up in 1933 to keep the rif-raff out.

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How did the sociopaths become psychopaths? Otherwise I agree with where they congregate. The 80/20 rule applied to the first 80/20 sort produces ~4% of a population controlling the rest.

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No question in my mind, we should always be looking for improved capacitors. Hopefully unity will make that a growth industry as well.

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Rezwan, thanx for the excellent analyses. I’d no idea how many opportunities there may be to break the cycle. As for the natural state, please consider Genesis as a catalog of human frailties.

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War has been an effective way to steal land (and other resources along with it) for centuries. The rosy glasses version of my world view hopes dollar diplomacy itself will prevail, but I’m not betting on it in my lifetime. And sometimes you really do have to go beat the tar out of an extremist who never attempted diplomacy and shows no willingness to work things out to mutual benefit.

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Phil’s Dad wrote:
The sad truth is eliminating this source of conflict will achieve little in the way of reducing war.
Other excuses will be found.
War is the natural state; peace needs constant vigilance and constant resourcefulness.

In the mean time I would far rather focus on all the good we can do than preening ourselves over the harm done by the alternatives.
(and I’m sorry if this makes me unpopular but I include in that dreaming up holier than thou videos about oil spills on the drive to work)

Let’s please be the solution rather than letting this society be just another soldier twisting the knife.

Heartily seconded.

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Beryllium neutron reflector? That would make for a very light, compact shield if it were true.

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Here in 2010, very few of us can actually see FF being produced, marketed, and taking up the slack from all that fossil, wind and solar capacity. To us, the situation is not static. History is about to repeat itself yet again, and this time we can participate if not lead.

“Head ’em off at the past, boys!”

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Hopefully we’ll know the initial cooling limit experimentally within 2 years. I agree with running most FFs around 90 to 95% of rated capacity. $10M worth of DPFs idled for system stability will go a lonnnggg ways. Just think, that might be enough to commission a study!

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Consider the double entendar of “workplace safety” as it pertains to how the BP mess came about. :down:

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You know what’s crazy, Brian, their logic does make sense in terms of creating jobs and contract$ on a very large scale, provided that you either ignore FF, are blissfully unaware of it, or figure that it’s so close and so cheap that if it is brought in anywhere near schedule, it won’t need funding agencies mucking up the program with funding legislation.

And I can live with that. Without that type of thinking, we would have a much more efficient economy.

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Brian H wrote:

The trick will be arranging that power circuitry to deliver the constant 50/60Hz 3phase output, as the pulse rate goes up and down to match power demand from the local/national grid.

The easiest way may be to go to DC then generate the nice stable sinusoidal mains frequency from that, but its not necessarily the most efficient.

My thinking is that FFs would be installed in clusters, and they could be shut off or cranked up as 5MW units. That’s a small enough slice to smoothly match rises and falls in demand, I think. That way each unit would have a constant pulse rate, so no need to fiddle the frequency!

Every time I do rough calcs using 5MW generators I find myself sub-noting up to 15MW instantly available peak reserve per core. (boy is this juice going to cost you!). If most of the fast food and gas/convenience stores had a FF on their roof, there would be tens of thousands of local correction nodes across the continent. But first we’ll have to invest billions in a smart grid…

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Those 4 should really be OSHA’s poster kids promoting workplace safety. But to see the world without FF, google Third Industrial Revolution. :shut:

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Thanx, Breakable. I’m selling e-books, not taking investments. The reason the plan can move so quickly is that it completely bypasses the obvious funding and resource sources. This also eliminates exposure to the enormous delays and paranoia sinks involved in starting and growing most organizations.

Brian, there’s a tax incentive scandal going on over here called Hangar 42 film studio which refutes most of your last post.

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