[Francisl]

That brings up a related question because of Newton’s law that for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. The positive beam is carrying a lot of energy and momentum but the negative beam should have relatively little energy and momentum. That means there is an unbalanced directional force on the plasmoid forcing it to move in the opposite direction from the positive beam. If the plasmoid doesn’t move much that would indicate that either there is a significant amount of momentum in the negative beam or the strong magnetic field in the DPF is transferring the reaction force to the DPF structure.
If there is a reaction force that is transferred to the DPF structure would the force be significant? Would a vibration be detectable? Could a resonant vibration occur in a DPF running in continuous mode?

[Francisl]

This is the type of system that I am thinking of. Maybe it can be scaled up to the necessary size.

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[Francisl]

We currently use 400 psi steam for power generation and 150 psi and lower pressure steam for process heat. We have two generators that produce about 5 MWe but can go to about 6MWe. If we had much cheaper electricity we could change our process so that we would need less heat.

[Francisl]

I work in an industry that uses about 200 tons per day of coal for combined heat and power. We use about 5 MW of electricity from our generators and the rest of the heat is used to produce steam. It would be nice to have DPF units that could produce equivalent results. I’m guessing that the electrical coils in the front of the device could provide our electricity and the x-rays coming from the back of the machine could produce our heat. This could be a simpler and more robust design for many industries.

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