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Subject: Re: Fusor uses for microwaves:
Date: Aug 19, 00:39 am
Poster: Pierce Nichols

On Aug 19, 00:39 am, Pierce Nichols wrote:


>Assuming that at the "crunch" the fusor plasmoid deuterium ions have 20 KEV of kinetic energy, then I calculate their velocity is 1.38 X 10E6 m/s or about 0.5% of the speed of light. Perhaps the average expansion and contraction velocity is ½ this. Then the plasmoid would have time to contract or expand only 0.015 cm in ½ a cycle (distance = (ion velocity/velocity of light) X distance light travels in ½ cycle = ½ X 0.5% X ½ X 12 cm). This seems much too small.

Why? Isn't all that matters the impact velocity?

>More realistic plasmoid oscillation diameters might be about 1 cm at the crunch and 7 cm at maximum expansion. This would need a RF frequency about 400 times lower or 6 meghz to drive it. This wavelength (equivalent to 50 m) makes resonant chambers too big to be useful, but a resonant chamber is not necessarily required.

What leads you to those numbers?

>There may not be anything worth pursuing here, but I wanted to clarify the idea.

Always useful to think about new ideas for fusion in velocity space (kudos to Richard Hull for passing on that one liner!).

-p