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BreakableKeymasterI just want to point out that any work that LPP does on the spark plug distracts them of the actual work on fusion. So the best ideas would be as simple as possible, easy to implement and not require any extensive engineering, prototyping, testing. The best ones would be already existing products – are there really none?
BreakableKeymasterzapkitty wrote: medium versions of the proposed alternate
Why is it black as in coal, i would make it yellow as sun 😉
BreakableKeymastermchargue wrote:
And finally, there’s nothing wrong with playing with LASERs!http://www.mathematicianspictures.com/Images/375w_MATH_PG3020_WLAB_9000X.jpg
😛BreakableKeymasterI wish there were some numbers.
Ok lets say vaporization is slow,
so maybe we can ionize gas some simpler way instead of using lasers?BreakableKeymasterBefore someone starts playing with lasers, could someone please explain to me what is the problem with Ignitrons?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IgnitronBreakableKeymasterI am really interested who is responsible for cutting the non-tokamak research. It is like a dead-body in evidence and I would love to see who pulled the trigger. As Innovative Confinement Concepts develops friends it finds enemies too, so I think we as a community should spend some time to find out who are the evil masterminds opposing fusion diversification.
BreakableKeymasterWhat about spreading this message a little further?
While I am all for limiting board member to the current FFS active members,
maybe attracting new members and involving them is also a good idea.
Is it not part of the “Fall Call for Support” action?
PS:I am considering to apply, but I am very busy as is. Anyone else thinking that as well?BreakableKeymasterI am watching the video now. Just want to point out that Eric makes some claims that will be attacked by skeptics immediately, such as that the plasmoid-like process is occurring in quasars, solar flares, atmospheric sprites. He will probably have to defend this position with references to peer reviewed papers. If anyone can provide those, please go ahead.
October 19, 2010 at 1:01 pm in reply to: A new approach for thermal energy conversion might improve efficiency #8639BreakableKeymasterzapkitty wrote:
…but could the JTEC be considered any closer to reality than the “onion”?Yes, definitely. They have some stuff for JTEC that is already working (as I understood from the article they had the fuel cell membrane long time ago).
And AFAIK there needs to be a lot of work done to even get the “onion” project proof of concept funded.BreakableKeymasterHow are the meetings organised: online or real world?
Can you tell us what kind of issues FFS board members used to deal with?BreakableKeymasterHenning wrote:
Won’t work. For every job created, two are lost – or take any other arbitrary multiplier. Could be 2 like in this example, 5, 10, 0.5, -2, or whatever, depending on the agenda of the speaker.😀
Every innovation seems to go in this direction – destroy jobs. We would all have 100% employment in the sustenance farming family business if not all those pesky innovations…BreakableKeymasterWhile physics papers are probably above my level, I would suggest for others to read a classical book about scientific investigation, to get some background as well as to enjoy some interesting anecdotes and generalization of the investigation process: “The Art of Scientific Investigation”
http://www.archive.org/details/artofscientifici00beveWhile those of you in the process might thing you know everything you need already, I think you might find some supportive ideas there still. It is public domain, so you can download it. I have an OCR version, but is not fully cleaned up yet (need to crop the edges a little).
September 16, 2010 at 1:40 am in reply to: How early historically could FF have been accomplished? #8358BreakableKeymasterPutting the rise time issue aside one interesting solution to high power problem could be having multiple resonance circuits and connecting them in serial/parallel manner to increase voltage/current. You could take 40 circuits with 1000 volts to get 40kv voltage. The multi-million amperage seems more of an issue.
The question is how do you control such a large number of circuits precisely? This project seems worth of ITER challenge, but the small testing circuits connected a mini-dpf could be worked on by students on an university level.September 15, 2010 at 12:39 pm in reply to: How early historically could FF have been accomplished? #8355BreakableKeymasterHenning wrote:
I think they don’t say anything about a current rise time of 100ns from 0 to 1 MA with a resonating circuit. That’s the problem.Somehow I like the idea of getting rid of the switches a lot.
Would there really be an issue with rise time?
Basically as I see it is all about the current – how fast you discharge your capacitors into the induction coil.
Still I think you would need some kind of switches to connect the resonating circuit with the DPF, but probably you could choose between voltage and current.September 12, 2010 at 9:27 pm in reply to: 6th September update: Yield 1/10 of expected @ 1MA, but might be fixed. #8340BreakableKeymasterI wish you had a simulation for the pinch process – would be so much easier/cheaper to adjust the parameters and find the optimum point.
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