Author: ChrisChris
Date: Feb 9, 2008 04:46
A simple coil which is part of a tuned circuit can contain a plasma (there
is no force along the axis so it won't get sqeezed out) and once the plasma
starts fusion reactions the plasma expands against the containment and
induces a current in the coil.
When the coil is in a tuned circuit the oscillations are maintained by this
cycle of compression, ignition and expansion the tuned circuit acts like the
flywheel on an ic engine.
Thus ac power may be extracted.
The mean free path of an ion depends on the pressure at low pressures this
in much longer than at high pressures.
In an electric field an ion pickes up energy from the field and the longer
it can fly before hitting another ion the higher the energy it can aquire.
This means that the probability of the enegy being sufficient to overcome
the energy barrier (due to the coloumb force) is greater. There is a tunnel
effect which simply means that at low energy the probablity of fusion is
lower than at high energies.
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