 Self contained fusor
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Sat Feb 20 2010, 11:03AM
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Registered Member #96
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Hi all.
Just looking into fusors and it occurs to me that an interesting geometry would be a toroidal intermediate grid (or inner) consisting of several series connected piezo transformers (SMS60 may work) with an internal battery to power the setup and levitated using external magnets in the centre of the toroidal grid.
The basic idea was inspired by the LDX (levitated dipole experiment) at MIT's fusion lab.
In fact this setup would in theory have far higher efficiency as the fields should converge without colliding with the grids if the outer surface of the toroid was covered in magnets.
sounds possible?
-A
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wylie
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Are you talking about using only permanent magnets for the levitation part? I was under the impression such a feat was physically impossible.
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Registered Member #96
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both. the basic mechanism is the same as those "floating globes" you might find in a gadget shop.
it uses a large PM and a small "gradient" coil to shim the field in two dimensions to ensure that the magnet remains stable.
-A
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once you get a plasma in there the static magnetic field lines will not stay that way, they can diffuse through the plasma and do really weird and nonintuitive things. You center thing would probably fall down.
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