Bikeshedding superconductiong magrid design

Discuss the technical details of an "open source" community-driven design of a polywell reactor.

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DeltaV
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Re: Bikeshedding superconductiong magrid design

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In that case, maybe Bitter will be useful for some future thin-film superconductor, one that doesn't quench under high field strength.

Go Johan.

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Re: Bikeshedding superconductiong magrid design

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DeltaV wrote:In that case, maybe Bitter will be useful for some future thin-film superconductor, one that doesn't quench under high field strength.
Maybe, but why? Remembr, they are having trouble getting electrons into the MaGrid at 0.8T field strength.

DeltaV
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Re: Bikeshedding superconductiong magrid design

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Use magnetic metamaterials as field shields and send in "electron torpedoes" for pulsed or "electron spaghetti" for continuous operation.

Yuck. This is starting to sound like NIF.

(Hmmmmm... If one could make such a shield out of Boron 11...)

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Re: Bikeshedding superconductiong magrid design

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My point was that excess field scaling versus size scaling seemed to cause problems. If so, why push for an even greater excess than can be easily gotten from a standard SC EM?

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