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by NewtonPulsifer
Wed Aug 24, 2011 8:21 pm
Forum: News
Topic: New aluminum alloy better than pure copper
Replies: 2
Views: 4703

New aluminum alloy better than pure copper

There's a small company with a carbon nanotube impregnated aluminum alloy (also some brass etc in there - google the patent if you want - Bourque Industries). It exceeds Copper 11000 in thermal and electrical conductivity. Nice. Normally aluminum is about 59% of copper in thermal and electrical cond...
by NewtonPulsifer
Wed Aug 24, 2011 8:17 pm
Forum: Design
Topic: Copper Electromagnets and Power and Heating limits
Replies: 22
Views: 19945

There's a small company with a carbon nanotube impregnated aluminum alloy (also some brass etc in there - google the patent if you want - Bourque Industries). It exceeds Copper 11000 in thermal and electrical conductivity. Nice. Normally aluminum is about 59% of copper in thermal and electrical cond...
by NewtonPulsifer
Sat May 07, 2011 3:27 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: Idea: X-Ray reflection
Replies: 71
Views: 36341

For neutronic and/or very high percentage bremsstrahlung fusion it seems using aluminum would be a good (maybe the only feasible) material choice for engineering a polywell design that lets neutrons and x-rays just "pass through" to a moderator layer/fluid for thermalizing the neutrons via boiling p...