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http://www.dupont.com/products-and-services/membranes-films/polyimide-films.html

Kapton would be a far better choice than PET.

I’m pretty sure that a terrific company like DuPont would donate all the film you need.

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The device should be able to maintain the plasma for some time, but I doubt it will produce much to assist FoFu. There are many other stellerators around the world the first being H1 in Australia. I suspect this is more of about new engineering than new physics.

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I like the idea that a 150degC bake might resolve the oxygen problem, but I am concerned that this will lead to problems with the mylar. PET recrystallizes as 80degC and melts at between 120 and 150degC.

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I wonder if a laser sparkplug would be useful for generating the boron fuel

http://www.chem.hawaii.edu/Bil301/Kaiser Paper/p178.pdf

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vansig wrote: thus making it a particle decelerator. (just like a particle accelerator, only in reverse).

But particle accelerators are very inefficient… I guess this is a problem for later

Here’s an interesting patent the topic

http://www.google.com/patents/EP2297841A2?cl=en

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