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Thanks, ….back to the drawing board!

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Thanks for the input. There are two issues going on here. One is my learning curve with the 3D program (Carrara). The other is artistic. This isn’t supposed to be a CAD design, it’s more of an illustration. I’m trying to represent reality but have it come across with heightened visual impact. It’s merging science with art. The art side is subjective. I am trying to make this have a wow factor, rather than a be an engineering mock up, although I may stretch the scientific credibility a bit. I know there are actually more cathodes in FF-1 for example. I know that the surface is not as polished. It’s also upside down from what the current set up is. But what I’ve created is how we artists think. Leonardo designed his helicopter with a rotating disk. People may have said it couldn’t fly because it wasn’t the shape of a bird wing. But he wanted it to fly, in his mind! He committed his idea to sketch for the future. People flying, what a crazy idea! I am weighing all your input and do welcome it and will incorporate the criticisms to some degree. But I’m also gearing this more toward dramatic art to attract people’s attention to the concept and think about it. Tell me though, if I’m too far off with it! It should be something that’s useful to people to explain the functioning of the device and the physics behind it.

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Yes, my next chapter in this simulation is to wrap the “Onion” around the DPF, which will open as if it has a rotating aperture door within. I have a problem with making the plasma look more gaseous with my software. The rendering time goes up exponentially if I try to make it look more ephemeral through blurring and then it’s still not quite “gassified”. It’s a learn as you go process…but I’ll try to do a zoom through view too.

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OK, it required major surgery, here’s another stab at it….

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Thanks Tulse. Nitpicks are welcome. I’ll see if I can turn off the shadow projection, or at least reduce it. I haven’t worked with plasma’s enough to know whether they cast shadows or distort light rays passing through it. There are other questions I have about the plasma field and whether it really would look like this sequence. It’s what I imagine. A hat tip though, to Torulf Greek and his animation skills for showing how the DPF works. I’m just trying to develop a style to it, as if it were dressed up, polished and on display somewhere in the future. It’s a little cartoon like, but a lot of gamers out there will appreciate that. Just like the “communicators” from the Star Trek days have now become ubiquitous as cell phones, I’m trying to portray FoFu-1 as something cool looking that we’d really like to have for real….

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“Cool!”, that lends clarity to what takes place. A slow motion visual of this process would be nice too. In the Torulf Greek animation the beam looks laser like, but it’s possible to slow it down and basically strip it, imparting the energy progressively to the coil as electricity without too much heat. Interesting…

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If I understand correctly, a charged particle beam is created by the fusion reaction in the plasmoid. The beam will exit the pinch and be directed to the solenoid, which converts the concentrated energy into electricity. I presume this will be hot, as with a lightning strike? And it will be focused into a beam which would mean a small surface area will be impacted. Can it be absorbed without damage to the solenoid, long term?

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Sorry, I have my beams mixed up. I meant the ion beam from which electricity will be extracted at the solenoid. Will the solenoid get very hot?

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jamesr 04 July 2010 03:30 PM

The anode would have helium gas pumped through, in order to keep its surface below 800K or so. The outside of the vacuum chamber and other parts (eg. the capacitors) can be conventionally water cooled.

What temperatures would you anticipate stemming from the fusion produced electron particle beam meeting the solenoid? Will the beam be collimated like a laser beam or more diffused as we see with jets in space. Does the solenoid need special materials and cooling treatment as well?

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That’s really impressive software! Someone ought to get their hands on a Cray (or something similar) for you to get to work with it….Thanks for the preview, Jamesr

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Jamesr, I understand that what’s easy for me as a lay person to think of isn’t so easy to do. I looked up thermal radiation in Wikepedia and it shows a set of formulas for calculating. With your background I’m sure you see that as just the beginning of the daunting issues involved. I would think it would be a valuable tool to have the visual modeling of data to be able to show effects of different design configs. and material choices. Maybe LPP has done something along these lines already?

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Perhaps one of you could come up with a graphic simulation of heat propagation through the cycle. I see a 3D motion animation presentation for this. Gathering all the factors and with different materials employed…. Sounds like a science project. I’m not up to it, but maybe you all are. This is a really interesting thread that’s dealing with the crux of potential risks as energy levels increase. You can’t know for sure how it will all play out without going through the experimental phase, but it doesn’t hurt to have foresight.

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CNN and BBC are a couple of sources for war video, and of course Getty images for which you’ll have to pay for. Not sure that you could get the rights from these sources for free. Wikimedia has a small number of images. Patientman, are you able to put together a video on your own, with what we have at this point? Need assistance?

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Here’s another image in the “protecting the seashore” department. An image of a sea anenome in a tide pool, it reminds me a bit of the image looking down a DPF during a pinch! 🙂

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Here’s a link to Wikimedia oil spill images: Oil Spill
Also a couple of my own you can use if you like are attached.

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