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Does reverse osmosis reduce the D fraction? By how much? RO should not touch the isotope distribution. It is purely physical chemistry. (I work with RO water purifiers these days.) Even a Palladium hydrogen purifier which makes 99.999995% pure hydrogen sees D pretty much the same as H. Remember the...

Work in Progress with some actual progress to show. Size of space modeled in meters: X=-0.50 to +0.50 Y=-0.70 to +0.70 Z=-0.50 to +0.50 Origin: at the polyhedron’s vertex. Coil parts modeled are Kiteman’s X-Cusp laid out on a plane i.e. not yet bent around the sphere. This is using Kiteman’s spreads...

This was discussed some months back.

My latest understanding is that with pBj the heat loading is about zero EXCELLENT! :D :D :D Yes, that was good news. Eight inches is probably a good start I just did the calcs with 0.100 meter radius coil casings which is 8 inches diameter. (It really should not affect what I just did but it is goo...

distance of the field point relative to the mid-point of the line segment, not the distance normal to the line segment. good point If the bead density is high enough it should show where it is well enough. I may yet have to draw the coil wire explicitly from the wire path segment list. If so, so be...

I caused mine to fall to 0 based on the amount of current still inside the location. This avoids the edge singularity your way produces (if I understand your way). I don't really care about the field inside the conductor. My only concern is the field in the plasma region. The singularity is a real ...

That is what I thought you were trying to get at, but I was not sure. By inputting the minor radius, the current gets reduced by the ratio of your standoff from centerline within the coil divided by the minor radius, quantity squared. Clear? No, not exactly clear yet. The radius of the conductor or ...

IMO the structural loads get better with higher order polyhedra. Consider the limiting case of a plane of coils. The forces all balance out and there is no net mechanical load on the coils. Near the limiting case with each coil covering a small solid angle (as seen from the center of the PW) there i...

This is still just a random shot of work in progress I'm not really happy with it yet, although it is getting almost useful. The z axis is very foreshortened from this viewing angle. That angle is to show all the field direction/strength lines between the balls. And besides at least one of the axes ...

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm317/tombo1234/Drawing4-Model.jpg It seems to have gotten fuzzified during conversion to jpeg to photobucket to here. Again ball dia and line length are proportional to field strength and line direction is field direction. The scale is Teslas with an adjustment t...

O52, Q52, and R521 are the summed Bx, By, and Bz respectively. Yes that is what I meant. These are where I am taking your output as my input to run with. O51 superposes the “x” field of the modeled side coil with that of the “other” (unmodeled) side while O53 does the same for the modeled top and t...

MSimon wrote:And I forgot to mention that alphas leaving through a cusp greatly simplifies direct conversion.

Do we have an estimate yet of the thermal flux at the magrid with that consideration (the bulk of the alphas going through the holes) in mind?
If it came through I missed it.

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm317/tombo1234/vect.jpg This porcupine is a snapshot of a work in progress so please don't be too harsh in your judgment. It has been so long since I contributed that I wanted to get something showing. I started with Kiteman's spreadsheet, tore my hair out trying...

And 5X or 10X is a much more comfortable margin.

Dream on!

This whole scheme is waaay too close to the hairy edge to expect safety factors like that.

Remember a coil failure with WB-6 almost killed the project. This is exactly why we need multiple experiments. The larger machine will need a larger building, power supplies, vacuum pumps, generators, etc. all of which are long lead items. The second (larger) machine will be far enough behind the f...