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Sounds promising for the thermal, electrical, and mechanical loads. Do you think this would enable smaller electrode diameters?

[Aeronaut]

Brian, didn’t I tell you that you wouldn’t understand? In order to pull this off, I need to develop a leadership development program rivaling the size and can-do attitude of any branch of the armed forces. By building the organization around 100,000 leaders and several million total employees, you start thinking like Yoda:

“Impossible is nothing”

Almost forgot to mention that US taxes have a lot of incentives for creating jobs of any kind- especially clean energy kinds. There are also tax incentives for putting out of work factories back on the tax rolls.

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Dr_Barnowl wrote:

Aquarius network

Want to sell a franchise to the UK (say, for oooh, one guinea and 1% of the gross?)

If you’re talking about manufacturing, that’s between you and LPP, Doc. but yes, licensing a number of brands is in my planning. I’m only staking out the US market, where I’m most familiar with the cultures and legal structures. I’m writing the biz plan up as a series of e-books that just happen to revolve around routinely doing the “impossible” so you never run out of monopolies, and will be sure to let you know when it’s ready for review. Ever try to imagine being a trillionaire? All it takes is selling a million FF installations.

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Rats, the FB icon would only show the “blackout” slide. Can’t wait to see if the Easy Button concept brings in lay traffic.

[Aeronaut]

And I’m gearing up to directly and indirectly simultaneously solve America’s unemployment and clean water problems by building millions of cores every year. While you’ve been naysaying, I’ve been identifying and working out workarounds to all manner of possible snags, such as the politics, time lags of traditional financing, and how to make it look like I reached into the ether and magically produced an entire Aquarius manufacturing, sales, service, regulatory, and training network within the space of a year.

Remember, you heard it here first, and you refused to believe. Ain’t my problem.

[Aeronaut]

First mover has a legal monopoly by default, Brian. By dominating the field, I can enforce reasonable pricing for all parties as opposed to corporate pricing. John D. Rockefeller built Standard Oil on a similar model: to provide high quality fuels at low price to nearly any point on the planet.

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I am planning to mass produce and market these. Hopefully under the Aquarius brand name. Can you say legal monopoly and first-mover advantage?

[Aeronaut]

And the X-ray burst hits the anode right as it’s temperature is peaking?

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jamesr wrote:

There are no commercially available plasma switches that can handle the current requirements. Hence the need for multiple switches that must fire simultaneously.

I guess that then begs the question – What would it take to design a switch that can handle the load?

And the associated question- How difficult would it be to scale our existing switching technology to the 2-3MA range? Do we really need to start from scratch?

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Financing options and potential yield improvements (as the science of manufacturing onions matures) are another set of sales incentives.

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TCG, the operating numbers are probably a lot better than I floated as worst case above. They charged the installation and setup engineering fees for each and every core swap. I see the installation as a very minute share of the real pie for the salesmen, much like printers make the money by selling ink. If you can lock PG&E into a 20 year service contract for 1,000 or more reactors, you could price the lot however you wanted in order to get the real prize.

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Tulse wrote: Could we get a shot of the switch for the gallery? I’m guessing I’m not the only one who thinks that would be cool.

Quite right, Tulse. We have our own Easy Button. :coolsmile: The copy writing possibilities are endless. After all, what problem can’t be at least partially helped by cheap, clean energy?

[Aeronaut]

Sounds very promising except for the ferritic material, which should act like an X-ray magnet relative to even copper.

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I can’t wait for all of the bargains on production facilities!

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jamesr wrote: Can somebody tell me why there needs to be more than one switch?

They are all wired to the anode on the other side of the switches. One big switch has to handle the whole current load, but it completely eliminates synchronization issues.

I often wonder the same thing, James. On a similar note is how few caps I can get reliable ignition from. As far as I know, 2MA is too much current for today’s manufacturing technology. General Atomics sells 4 caps in 1 case that begs for a single switch and a torpedo-shaped core which contains all the wear and inspection parts for a quick and reliable service interval.

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