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The only way you can get complete freedom is libertarianism, and we know that doesn't work: http://www.slate.com/id/2202489/ EDIT: I guess complete freedom is Anarchy... but that's not my main point. The point is fascism as a word is just so misused that it is meaningless. I can't tell. Were you jo...

tombo wrote: I can't visualize your micro-channel heat exchanger. Gap-wound spiral insulator?

I have a simple graphic of the idea, but I don't know where to post it so that I can use the "img" tag. Any suggestions?

There is the problem of drilling the cooling holes and bolt holes without shorting turns. You have to look at why Bitter did what he did. Why didn't he just wind a ribbon on a spool? I don't know why he did it, that is why I am asking. Is it not plausible that technology has improved to a point whe...

Would someone explain to me why a Bitter magnet, which is a stack of flat rings, is better than a coil of flat plate? The number of turns and x-section can be identical, and the coil seems so much easier to build. The bolt holes and coolant holes can be effectively identical. Why so Bitter? The Bit...

Would someone explain to me why a Bitter magnet, which is a stack of flat rings, is better than a coil of flat plate? The number of turns and x-section can be identical, and the coil seems so much easier to build.

The bolt holes and coolant holes can be effectively identical. Why so Bitter?

Bring on the Polywells, we'll need the heat output!!!

MSimon wrote: SiC is used to face metal working tools. It is brittle and not easy to work. That is why tools that use it have steel backing.

When proposing a non-conductive can, I envisioned a barrier to the immediate loss of electrons. Perhaps a non-conductive coating on a can would suffice?

... Back in the real world, we could build a buffer consisting of either large capacitors or large batteries (or large superconducting inductors when technology permits), whichever fits the discharge model best. Have the buffer large enough that it won't over-charge at minimum consumption. The "buf...

There are a number of excellent electrical insulators that are also very good thermal conductors; most ceramics with diamond like structures, IIRC. Boron nitride comes to mind, though I can't find the data on it just now. It is brittle. Hard to work. And thin sections are difficult. And as I recall...

There are a number of excellent electrical insulators that are also very good thermal conductors; most ceramics with diamond like structures, IIRC. Boron nitride comes to mind, though I can't find the data on it just now. You got it right the first time - the electrons are lighter so they will charg...

Several companies have proposed small, sealed "nuclear battery" type reactors for some time, so a 27MW electrical is reasonable. It is the "no moving parts" that intrigues me. Do you suppose this is truly a scaled up thermionic battery vice a nuclear core / heat engine of some sort?

drmike, Thank you for your response. Obviously I am missing something, which is not surprising being a mechanical vice electrical engineer. But what are we trying to ground with the metallic coil can? I though it was kept at a significant positive voltage. My idea is to replace the metallic can and ...

All the pictures I have seen show metalic cans around the coils and metalic bridges between them. I can sort of understand the coil can, it carries the positive charge for the MAGrid. But wouldn't a simple strip on one face do that just as well? If the can and bridges were non-conductive, wouldn't t...

If there is ever a real push to start working toward a dodec, then intermediate steps, (cube, octahedron) should be attempted along the way. Take delivery of the first 6 coils, check out the cube. Take delivery of two more, check out the octahedron. Accept the last four, run the dodec. Two points de...

The full phrase is "The contractor is to specifically investigate the required instrumentation to achieve spatially resolved plasma densities and spatially resolved particle energies." My reading is that this is a design study. The lack of diagnostic information on the density and "temperature" (an...