[The_Programer]

I wasn’t thinking of airplanes in particular, there is a thread elsewhere for that, but more general applications like cars, ships, trains, dirigibles, etc. I was looking at the wikipedia page on the Toyota Prius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prius) and noticed that the total power in KW is ~100, 100KW happens to be 2% of 5MW, and was wondering if Focus Fusion would scale down that far and what the radiation levels would be at that size. I’m thinking about Issac Asimov’s Foundation series and how they had nuclear reactors the size of a walnut and used nuclear power for everything (they had personal shields that where nuclear powered).

[The_Programer]

Aeronaut wrote: The ability to do this in good conscience will vary with each installation. In the case of mobile installations, I would think no reduction would be conscionable. In large aircraft installations, several hundred tons of fuel and fuel system are no longer needed, which helps immensely.

I was thinking something like a laser, only in reverse. The neutrons bounce back and forth through the water slowing down until the can be absorbed by Boron10. I personal do not wish to be close to an unshielded reactor and would never reducing shielding, I proposing smaller and potentially as or more effective shielding.

Aeronaut wrote: Regarding Point 3, the DPF can be designed with a single piece cathode, which could double as the vacuum chamber wall.

Why did they chose a cluster of cathodes instead of a single piece one? Do the filaments still form properly on a single piece cathode? If the plasma sheath is evenly distributed wouldn’t it skip the filament merge stage? Would the sheath be evenly distributed? Would miniature defects cause the sheath to concentrate in unstable ways?
Please don’t think I’m demanding answers, I’d just like to fill in the gaps in my information/understanding.

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