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Thanks Giorgio. I guess I really should find the exact return temperature to the generation plant, however for now I'll take it to be 1100C. From http://www.criticalprocesses.com/Use%20of%20enthalpies%20to%20calculate%20energy%20needed.htm Heat Required = (5413 - 4893) = 520 kJ/kg. Power = 520E3 * 4...

This is Australia. We don't do that non-SI temperature scale. For reference here is a similar process . 2.3.7 Calcination Product hydrate or aluminimum hydroxide is passed through oil-fired calciners where temperatures up to 1100 degreesC drive off the chemically bound water to form alumina. and her...

As much as the ultimate aim is for a pB11 Direct Conversion Polywell, if that doesn't make it, then a thermal conversion would still be entirely useful for industrial processes. I got some steam figures from an Aluminium Refinery. Can anyone help me work back to sizing a Polywell? Steam 740 t/hr + 4...

Here is the analogy... You want two basket balls (fuel atoms) to crash into each other really fast. You place each basketball in the centre of a car and smash the cars together really fast. The car bodies crumple a lot but the basketballs are cushioned and never even get close. So containing the fue...

we must build units as big as technology and energy markets allow it (but not bigger). Mostly correct, although you need to account for spinning reserve. Simplistically... if you would provide 1GVA of power to the grid with a single 1GVA unit, you need a whole additional 1GVA spare, effectively cos...

Defining zero electrical resistance All circuits involve a real (resistive) and an imaginary (reactive) component. Resistance is the power loss mechanism where heat is generated. An ideal capacitor is purely reactive. A voltage drop across it causes a charging current to flow through/into it until ...

TallDave wrote:I've been under the impression that's what the drive was for (the colder and hotter electrons leave via the Magrid and the wall, and are replaced by new electrons at the "proper" temp).

Why do colder electrons leave via the Magrid?

Aero wrote:so how many fusions are required by a 100 MW rated power plant?

Assuming 100% efficient conversion...
count = 100MW / 3.861E-22 MWh
count = 2.6E23 / h
count = 7.2E19 fusions per second

I do not have the additional money to do additional experiments: Not even $100. Neither do I have the time to do more experiments on my own anymore. Nonetheless an STM study would be very interesting. Recently an amateur researcher into the Polywell raised a reasonable sum of money on KickStarter: ...

Excuse my naivety, two things I don't follow: 1. How are 2qV and 2eV different? 2. You say " It is found that the radiation relates to an energy of 2eV where e is the charge of the electron " which would seem to indicate a pair of electrons, but then say " Thus the charge carriers are singly-charged...

Just a lesson learned for me: if you want to know how to judge these systems, speak to an engineer rather than a physicist. They have much more practicality involved. That doesn't really support your argument. MSimon is an Engineer. So am I. But I'm electrical rather than mechanical, so thats my cr...

I didn't know about Negative Electron Affinity Diamond, so I found this.

Johan, Welcome. Sounds like you've had a rough trot. Most of us are not in a position to challenge the physics - though we do the best we can. Most are here as interested spectators in this "out-there" technology.... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606 What do you think? Your...

Aero wrote:http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2008/0187086.html

What is meant by the term "dielectric field" as in...
"two oppositely-charged particles are tied together by their dielectric field."

Is it different somehow from "electric field".

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