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I'm just talking bollocks, ignore me
my head is full of this crap atm:
Full paper here
Visual evidence such as nitrogen fluorescence confirms the presence of low-level energetic electron beams emanating from a localized position or positions. These beam electrons are collisionally produced knock-on electrons. The spilling electrons form a beam path that bends due to the weak stray field surrounding the plasmoid. The collision rate of beam currents with thermal electrons at the inside Mantle’s edge is proportional to the knock-on beam currents (amperage) ejected from the Mantle. It is possible to measure this emerging beam current using the current’s induction effect on the rotation of polarized laser light induced within well-placed multi-turn fiber optics loops that surround the emerging beam. This same technique applies to the measurement of slowly time changing external (stray poloidal) field in the surrounding blanket. This is the residual field that was created by diffusion early in formation when the sheath was resistive.
Occasionally, acceleration or jerk (d<acceleration>/dt) is induced by inductive effects of residual formation current that repels the forming plasmoid. As the forming plasmoid becomes hyperconducting, any infiltrating field produced by the continuing current is forced out, producing a sudden reaction force or jerk. Here the bubble thin bow-shock wave generates a bright flash that obscures the flying plasmoid within. The plasmoid has reached an upward velocity of 50 kilometers per second. This demonstrates that the effect of a sharp one-dimensional acceleration is not disabling. The jerk was applied only for a couple of centimeters or less. Next Step Experimental Program The next experimental effort will be to form PMKs with substantially higher energy (25cm diameter at STP in atmospheric air) and with a static lifetime of one to five seconds. The capacitor storage bank will be operated at 10 to 16 kV, and, the use of a large solid-state crowbar will allow for longer and more reliable runaway electron acceleration time.
The presently existing Pulse Forming Network (PFN) includes a five hundred microfarad bank rated at 20kV with the high energy density section rated at 22.5 kiloVolts. To produce the enhanced PMKs, the bank will be operated at up to 85 percent of maximum rated voltage. An additional restriction on “Current Versus Time” for the high energy density section is that the current from each capacitor will be limited to a maximum, not to exceed 50 kilo-Amperes. In addition, each of these capacitors will be fitted in parallel with both a fuse (to limit peak current) and a resistor (to soak stored energy if the fuse interrupts the main discharge current). The resistor will be inductively wound and of sufficient energy rating to handle the energy soak up with a safety factor of three. All energy storage capacitors will discharge through a pulse forming LiCjnetwork and rail-gap switch. The current will then feed into the HID with a slight delay after the front-end capacitor discharge. The high-speed front-end capacitor will feed directly into a coaxial spark gap switch to produce a preferred fast rise time current into the coaxial HID. Once the current reaches a peak value, then a large semiconductor crowbar will fire, preventing the current discharge from recharging the energy storage capacitors and extending the flow of current through the forming plasmoid. This will allow runaway currents to reach and exceed relativistic values. It will also allow the forming plasmoid to efficiently capture magnetic energy stored within the plasmoid and provide the desired size of the fully formed PMK. Using this PFN, Prometheus II will produce PMKs approximately 25 cm in size and with lifetimes of 1 to 5 seconds. The PMK as an Innovative Confinement Engine for Fusion We anticipate the production of soccer ball or basketball sized, long-lived ( 1 to 5 seconds), highly compressible and efficiently acceleratable, high internal energy magnetoplasmoids. If formed of fusionable fuel, the PMK is ideally suited as an MTF target that is capable of being mechanically fluid compression heated within a boron burn chamber. The system’s compactness, simplicity, and efficiency may allow cycled operation at sixty Hertz. Direct injection of the aneutronically heated compression blanket through an Inductive MHD generator will produce electric power with exceptionally high efficiency.
Total bollocks.
| Originally Posted by Zoobies Electrons forming a path? Current flows or it doesn't. It doesn't "kinda flow" or "sort of flow." I'm not sure I understand what you are getting at. |
I'm just talking bollocks, ignore me
Full paper here
Visual evidence such as nitrogen fluorescence confirms the presence of low-level energetic electron beams emanating from a localized position or positions. These beam electrons are collisionally produced knock-on electrons. The spilling electrons form a beam path that bends due to the weak stray field surrounding the plasmoid. The collision rate of beam currents with thermal electrons at the inside Mantle’s edge is proportional to the knock-on beam currents (amperage) ejected from the Mantle. It is possible to measure this emerging beam current using the current’s induction effect on the rotation of polarized laser light induced within well-placed multi-turn fiber optics loops that surround the emerging beam. This same technique applies to the measurement of slowly time changing external (stray poloidal) field in the surrounding blanket. This is the residual field that was created by diffusion early in formation when the sheath was resistive.
Occasionally, acceleration or jerk (d<acceleration>/dt) is induced by inductive effects of residual formation current that repels the forming plasmoid. As the forming plasmoid becomes hyperconducting, any infiltrating field produced by the continuing current is forced out, producing a sudden reaction force or jerk. Here the bubble thin bow-shock wave generates a bright flash that obscures the flying plasmoid within. The plasmoid has reached an upward velocity of 50 kilometers per second. This demonstrates that the effect of a sharp one-dimensional acceleration is not disabling. The jerk was applied only for a couple of centimeters or less. Next Step Experimental Program The next experimental effort will be to form PMKs with substantially higher energy (25cm diameter at STP in atmospheric air) and with a static lifetime of one to five seconds. The capacitor storage bank will be operated at 10 to 16 kV, and, the use of a large solid-state crowbar will allow for longer and more reliable runaway electron acceleration time.
The presently existing Pulse Forming Network (PFN) includes a five hundred microfarad bank rated at 20kV with the high energy density section rated at 22.5 kiloVolts. To produce the enhanced PMKs, the bank will be operated at up to 85 percent of maximum rated voltage. An additional restriction on “Current Versus Time” for the high energy density section is that the current from each capacitor will be limited to a maximum, not to exceed 50 kilo-Amperes. In addition, each of these capacitors will be fitted in parallel with both a fuse (to limit peak current) and a resistor (to soak stored energy if the fuse interrupts the main discharge current). The resistor will be inductively wound and of sufficient energy rating to handle the energy soak up with a safety factor of three. All energy storage capacitors will discharge through a pulse forming LiCjnetwork and rail-gap switch. The current will then feed into the HID with a slight delay after the front-end capacitor discharge. The high-speed front-end capacitor will feed directly into a coaxial spark gap switch to produce a preferred fast rise time current into the coaxial HID. Once the current reaches a peak value, then a large semiconductor crowbar will fire, preventing the current discharge from recharging the energy storage capacitors and extending the flow of current through the forming plasmoid. This will allow runaway currents to reach and exceed relativistic values. It will also allow the forming plasmoid to efficiently capture magnetic energy stored within the plasmoid and provide the desired size of the fully formed PMK. Using this PFN, Prometheus II will produce PMKs approximately 25 cm in size and with lifetimes of 1 to 5 seconds. The PMK as an Innovative Confinement Engine for Fusion We anticipate the production of soccer ball or basketball sized, long-lived ( 1 to 5 seconds), highly compressible and efficiently acceleratable, high internal energy magnetoplasmoids. If formed of fusionable fuel, the PMK is ideally suited as an MTF target that is capable of being mechanically fluid compression heated within a boron burn chamber. The system’s compactness, simplicity, and efficiency may allow cycled operation at sixty Hertz. Direct injection of the aneutronically heated compression blanket through an Inductive MHD generator will produce electric power with exceptionally high efficiency.
Total bollocks.
