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To everyone.

I found this little series to be informative about difficult projects, including a few delectable hints about insulating cryogenic systems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQO3Uf35beQ

A few thoughts: Hanging the cube from one corner makes the buckling forces on the supports smaller. This may allow us to reduce cross sections. It also simplifies the design by making all the coils structurally equivalent. See page 14 of this for a picture. I am taking a very hard look at this one....

Which is why I DON'T think a standard circular plan form will do at all. The radial forces from the virtual coil is sure to mess up your stesses. I think we already got a demonstration of that with WB-6. Hmm, let me offer you a proposal. We are a long way from building anything. Lemme draw this thi...

Billy, Seems we keep talking past each other. The magnet I described before, and as seen in the following:...image snipped...is NOT like a tire. Also, remember that I said the real one would be slightly different. The sides would be true arcs, following the curve of the sphere. They would also be a...

Billy, Since most of the stress is going to be transmitted from the magnet (LHe containing) cases any way - if you need thick walls for stress problems put them there. I believe there are some SSs that are pretty good at LN2 temps. I'm not familiar with LHe. But consider this: The Navy is testing a...

Just to throw a monky wrench into the works- actually need a three track approach: 1) liquid nitrogen cooled copper coils for Breakeven Demo BSR with limited operating and lifetimes. 2) liquid heluim cooled super conducter coils. 3) liquid nitrogen cooled high temperature superconducter coils- if n...

This is very difficult to explain without pictures. Take a car tire and split it into two pieces so that you now have two water troughs. While building the electromagnet, the wire would be laid down in one trough and the the second trough would be laid on top of it and then the seam around the perim...

As far as I can tell, and someone correct me if I am wrong, the SC core will be brittle at LHe temperatures. MgB helps. The ceramic superconductors not so much. In any case there are companies with experience in this sort of design. We hire them or hire away one of their designers. Or put out a hel...

It's hard to explain what I mean by compression without drawing you the pictures I am working on right now, but I'll try. Because the magnetic array is essentially symmetrical, and all of its elements are symmetrical, the resultants of all the forces acting on them are pushing outwards from the cent...

A structure like this could be built, but there are several problems with it. 1) How do you wind the coils? If winding coils in this shape is not possible, can a Bitter Plate type of magnet be made in this shape? 2) Assuming one or the other such cores can be made, how do we support it against the s...

"A few of the neutrinos that pass through the detector interact to produce electrons that travel faster than the speed of light in the heavy water ." They don't travel faster then c, the speed of light in vacuum. The speed of light in water is lower than c and can be exceeded. And, as far as neutri...

We are becoming goose-stepping fascists while spouting Marxist slogans. I can't wait to see what's next. That reminds me. I need to apologize to my kids.

Has anyone ever built a Faraday Wheel out of superconducting material? Might get some interesting results.

So how stiff is space-time when it comes to movement of the space-time benders? When one of the benders moves how does space-time adjust and at what speed? Assuming that I am understanding Unka Al correctly, gravity changes at the rate of exactly one C. Beyond that, I run out of answers, because gr...

So how stiff is space-time when it comes to movement of the space-time benders? When one of the benders moves how does space-time adjust and at what speed? Assuming that I am understanding Unka Al correctly, gravity changes at the rate of exactly one C. Beyond that, I run out of answers, because gr...