[Francisl]

@Lerner: If you have sources from semiconductor people that would know about forming mists and keeping particles away from surfaces, can you share them?

This link may help.
Silicon Semiconductors Chamber Cleaning

Here is another link of contacts.
FABVANTAGE CONSULTING

[Francisl]

Another thought occurs to me. Normal chemistry will be complicated by the intense photo-ionization in the chamber. I don’t know if that will create compounds faster or lead to their decomposition.
It would be interesting to coat some samples of beryllium with boron and beryllium/boron compounds and expose them to intense x-rays to see what would happen. That could be a good experiment for a university lab.

[Francisl]

Another thought that I had is that right after the electrical discharge the particles will have an electrostatic charge. An electrostatic precipitator inside the chamber could be formed by having a residual charge on the electrodes with respect to a collector plate outside the path of the plasma front. My guess is that the maximum particle concentration will be close to the pinch area so a collector could be placed close to that area.

[Francisl]

I suggest using jets to create a laminar flow of cool fuel along the surface of the electrodes. That would cool the surface of the electrodes and block the boron particles from touching the electrodes. Vacuum pumps would have to exhaust the chamber to maintain the proper pressure and remove the boron particles. The exhausted fuel could be cleaned, cooled and recycled.

[Francisl]

Jarr wrote: I found this this old investigation of beryllium tungsten being a superconductor. http://www.jetpletters.ac.ru/ps/1253/article_18959.pdf . What if the electrode was made of a beryllium tungsten alloy cooled with liquid helium to the 4 degrees kelvin to make it a superconductor?

It is an interesting idea but I think the fusion fuel would freeze to the electrodes.

[Francisl]

I have some questions. Is this radioactive waste chemically corrosive? Is the radiation so intense that it destroys the structural integrity of any containers? Are the spent fuel rods and damaged reactors experiencing natural radioactive decay or are sub-critical nuclear chain reactions occurring?

[Francisl]

There have been some radiation robots working at Fukushima. The ideal robot doesn’t seem to exist yet.

[Francisl]

Is your concept similar to this plasma device?
I don’t know how much energy it could store or how the energy would be extracted.

[Francisl]

Here is another reason to support fusion. Scientists Wary of Shale Oil and Gas as U.S. Energy Salvation

[Francisl]

Your points and the link are pretty good.
My opinion is that the US and probably Canadian governments are relying on carbon fuels for predictable economic growth and income. They are afraid of things that upset the status quo. They won’t seriously fund fusion or advanced fission reactors unless they feel threatened by big advances in foreign powers like Russia or China.

[Francisl]

Congratulations on your ranking in the contest.

[Francisl]

Breakable wrote: Hi All,
Password reset form is unfortunately broken and cannot be fixed without affecting other areas. Please get in touch if you need password reset:
https://focusfusion.org/index.php/site/toc/contact_us

I don’t need to reset my password but I tried your link and it gives me an error message.
Here is a link from a help forum. I hope it helps.

[Francisl]

zapkitty wrote:

How many threads are we talking about? What topics?

Definitely a horrible forum design.

Unknown. It only came to my attention when I realized that a lot of topics
had gone flat-out missing in “Noise”

Replies to the banned are AWOL… neither deleted nor accessible and
throwing this error message:

The following errors were encountered
You are not authorized to perform this action

I’m just wondering how far the damage goes because if one of the banned
replied in a non-Noise thread then any replies chained off of that post,
even sensible, relevant ones, would be dereferenced as well.

Could you be missing necessary permissions?

[Francisl]

I like your list of items and the prices. The Smithsonian items could be a good speculative investment for the right persons or organizations.

Do you have the ability to handle a large quantity of orders?

[Francisl]

The articles refer to Voss Scientific. They can probably run the software for companies but I have no idea what that service would cost.

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