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japan?

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Omg. Where do I send the money? And as far as superflies i seem to be breeding them in my garbage can. 😉

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desalinated water could be harvested with minimal treatment by drawing off of rivers and replenishing by piping to areas of greatest use. at least for the interim slowing the consumption from ogalala. we just need the horsepower to pump water to these areas. if focus fusion takes off this could be a very inexpensive approach.

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just a thought…….
I live near the Colombia river and have fished it a lot. it seems that we have a large fresh water source near by and that it could be rerouted ( in part) to go backwards and replenish our existing water usage from the vast underground reservoir that nature has given us. eliminating several dams and restoring the natural habitat for fish and wildlife. we would not have to desalinate anything but merely provide a source of energy to pump water back into the source that we have tapped and are depleting. maybe even just lay pipe in the riverbed that water already flows down. it just takes energy.
we have tapped and used the water at a rate and could construct a mechanism where by we reverse the operation at the same rate. for the same amount of years there would be no net change. just paying back what we have used.

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good thread.
although replacing existing 220/110 60hz power might be more efficient it would be a major investment by the average consumer in replacing all of their existing ac goods into a dc format. not to mention the cost to manufacturers in redesign of their product lines, standardization of voltages distribution of said voltages and overcoming the difficulty of even moderate distance voltage drops. this could be the realization of Edison’s dream of a dc distribution network that was shot down by Westinghouse and Tesla. in a transition to dc there could be benefits to dual service. but for the average consumer fast change would be economically unfeasible. imagine the workforce of electricians required to rewire neighborhoods and individual houses not to mention sky scrapers and industrial facilities, businesses hospitals ect. a major impact.
ac has served us well for power transmission and industrial applications. could you imagine the use of 3 phase motors without ac. I have and looking at just the power requirements of dc vs ac ac wins. lower currents for a given horsepower which means smaller conductors and switch gear which means lower cost.
society for the most part is resistant to change. they must have a worthwhile reason to convert to dc.
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in the interim i believe that a shift from coal fired to fusion source of energy would have great impact on the use of energy as affordable it could become. heating or cooling dwellings electrically rather than gas, charging vehicles for commuting rather than fossil fuel, refrigeration costs go down decreasing food costs. all of these would greatly help out the consumer. with no change to the infrastructure that we currently enjoy.

employing many substation generator facilities throughout our current network gradually would phase out coal fired plants along with dams, wind,solar, nuclear,tidal ect. this would give time for society to embrace the new technology while they feel zero impact on their lives other than a few more bucks in their wallet. it also gives time for exploring explaining the benifits of dc to the world and why it could be the next best thing.

first and foremost we must create the viable equipment necessary to make the change to fusion (working on it) secondly the infrastructure could be modified to include dc but economics seem to dictate how and when that occurs. just because we conceive a better mouse trap does not mean that it will come into wide spread use especially when an old scrappy cat does the job.

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yes seems like good calculations. there is a lot of other sites that contain the same calculations but with lower numbers (tokomak) they are bumping their head against multiple problems except funding.
as far as focus goes it seems that they have the temperatures needed to expose the neuclius but conquering that cooling effect of x-rays will be an achievement. my whole point in the (birdcage) was to look at the field lines of the plasmoid itself. in particular the spacing between them and if it was narrow enough to keep ions from slipping between. the other question was the ends of the plasmoid and if that too would allow ions to escape.
temperature, confinement time and ion density are all key components of the fusion process as far as i understand.
keep up hope it seems that things are starting to roll again. hats off to the focus team.

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I’m learning more every day. exciting stuff……….for a gearhead like me. never stop learning. don’t get discouraged. and never give up. :wow:

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from what i saw it didn’t make clear whether their powder was a catalist or part of a chemical reaction. neat high temperature rise but the video left more questions than answers for me. the final result was no power production but just heat. this in turn must be distilled using boilers turbines generators ect to produce electricitr. why not just burn the hydrogen with oxygen and call it good.

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the birdcage is not empty at all. It should be full of ions whose electrons have been stripped away. noting that the result is a hot plasma gas which in turn has even more rarefied particles. as the birdcage collapses it should trap those ions and have enough crushing force to overcome the repulsive force of the ions themselves. this can be done with electrostatic confinement as demonstrated by Farnsworth and Brussard experiments. there is even a utube demo of the boyscout plasma device. so we can see that the repulsive force of the ions can be overcome. this device ” plasma focus” is novel in that it is directing the fused ions at insane speeds into a decelerator by which power is generated at that point. kind of a solid state generator. it does not rely on heating water to steam to run turbines to turn shafts to run generators to produce power and add another form of pollution . “thermal pollution.”
In the evolution of any machine scaling of components often creates new challenges. even Brussard had difficulties getting the successes that he did. several ah-ha moments and Epiphanies later it seems that they are working on some exciting science.
Focus Fusion deserves the same commitment as the science is there and the approach simplistic as can be. smaller parts and lower power input requirements will make it less expensive to build and make it easier to get to the break even point. getting lean on input power requires smaller power supplies, smaller conductors, which is less expensive to get . we will only know how lean the we can get once we know how big the plasmoid must be to hold enough fuel to get out an appreciable amount of energy to 1 repeat the process and harvest the excess energy. in other words drive it until you break something , make it better then repeat. it all takes time, money, thought, talent, understanding,drive,ambition. without them any project is lost.

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new to the forum but not to machines. just wondering why everyone is talking implementation/integration in vehicles rather than focusing on a working prototype?
that being said:
thinking about the amount of gas that is available to fuse in a plasmoid. does the size of the plasmoid have a limit. how do you measure.
what pressure is the gas in the vac chamber
what voltage is the plasma sheet running at (in current tests) could the voltage be reduced so long as a sufficient plasma sheet be formed. use less expensive capacitor bank does Volts x amps =watts apply?
what is the advantage or dis advantage of the number of electrodes surrounding the inner electrode.
has anyone tried a low velocity rotating gas (recirculating) emitted from the center of the core? this seems to work well for plasma cutting devices. however higher pressures and velocities.it keeps the hotter gasses centered while cooler gas is centerfuged to the walls of the plasma tip (plasma cutter used for metal fab)
in order to ” fix” a mahine you must know the basics of how it is supposto run.
in order to upgrade a machine you must have an intimate knowledge of every aspect of design, material selection,operating parameters. ect.

soo many questions. the shape of the focus electrodes. material selection. does the shape have an impact on the collapse of the plasmoid. would a shorter or longer collapse time have an impact on temp of the plasmoid neuculi? seems that a current induced magnetic containment sufficient in size to contain an appericiable amount of fusion “fuel” could be electrically manipulated to put the hammer down and squeeze the heck out of the atoms forcing them to bond. what impact does plasmoid life have on xray generation.

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