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Ion Filtration Advances

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 6:31 am
by Keegan
One of the major issues in polywell design stumping even that of the good Doctor B, was that of separating the fuel and reaction products and evacuating the later.

This may prove very helpful http://www.csiro.au/news/FantasticPlastic.html

If it can differentiate between CO2 and CH4. It should be able to sort Boron and Helium.

*Thumbs Up* CSIRO

-k

Molecular, not atomic, filtering

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 4:02 pm
by scareduck
It's not clear from their description that atomic-level filtering would work.

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:16 pm
by MSimon
Sorting boron and helium should not be a problem. Boron condenses at room temps. Helium does not.