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Richard Nebel's Tibbar Plasma Technologies
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2019 1:37 pm
by Skipjack
Looks like Richard Nebel is working on a new fusion reactor design. Looks interesting. I wish him the best of luck!
https://www.tibbartech.com/nsf-grant/
Re: Richard Nebel's Tibbar Plasma Technologies
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2019 6:42 pm
by quixote
Thanks for the link, Skipjack.
Do you happen to know what became of their plasma-based transformer idea? I haven't seen anything about it, but I found the idea pretty interesting.
Re: Richard Nebel's Tibbar Plasma Technologies
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2019 6:46 pm
by Skipjack
They have a section on their website devoted to it. Seems like they got a 3.5 million ARPA-E contract:
https://www.tibbartech.com/transformers/
Re: Richard Nebel's Tibbar Plasma Technologies
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 2:28 pm
by hanelyp
To my eye it all reads like someone takes startrek too seriously.
Re: Richard Nebel's Tibbar Plasma Technologies
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2023 7:42 am
by Nanos
Someone had this to say about his DC to DC work:
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Interestingly similar to the (old) CEGB''s magnetohydrodynamic generation
project on which I worked in the '60s. That failed because of the
difficulty in getting long-lived enough electrodes to extract anything
like a useful electrical current from the plasma (a flame, in their case.)
The patent cited is, I suspect (can't find the full article) based on a
small scale experiment using one of the rare gases as the plasma, and may
be difficult to scale up - like ours!
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Related link:
DC to DC electrical transformer, Patent details:
https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch ... f/10334713