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- From: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M. Koloc)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Re: Plasmak/Paul Koloc
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.064754.23697@prometheus.UUCP>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 06:47:54 GMT
- References: <12AUG199216475632@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov> <1992Aug19.113435.27357@prometheus.UUCP> <1992Aug19.153710.7498@nmt.edu>
- Reply-To: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M. Koloc)
- Organization: Prometheus II, Ltd.
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- In article <1992Aug19.153710.7498@nmt.edu> houle@nmt.edu (Paul Houle) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug19.113435.27357@prometheus.UUCP> pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M. Koloc) writes:
- >
- >>We are have slipped 6 to eight weeks for a number of reasons.
- >>Still the commencing of diagnostic work will require three months
-
- > I'm curious about what sort of device you are testing. Is it
- >simply a larger and more powerful PLASMAK assembler, or is it actually
- >intended to produce a nuclear yield? If so, what kind of fuel are you
- >using? Can you tell us anything else about it?
-
- No, there is no nuclear yield sought at this juncture or expected and
- certainly none that would be of interest in any commercial sense. This
- work is at a very initial level. (Mostly all due to funding limitations).
- That aspect of the work is two to four years hence.
-
- First we haven't completely verified with critical diagnostic
- measurements that the long lived plasmoids that we can create in open
- atmospheric air are indeed the physical embodiment of the PLASMAK(tm)
- magnetoplasmoid (PMK) that we have conceptualized and theorized. Even
- though the special features already observed make it a likely PMK and
- the formation technique used was formulated by the theorized concept, a
- number of other studies must first be run to produce the data to certify
- the verification and this must happen before serious thoughts of
- obtaining nuclear yields come up. These preliminary diagnostics
- should be well along by January/February.
-
- We expect that the air plasmoids should be emitting soft X-rays and may
- upon physically induced disruption produce a fairly stiff although very
- short X-ray burst, (much like that seen during the disruption of a
- H or Super H mode operating tokamak.) Consequently it is necessary to
- complete building the block house in which the creatures can be formed
- and studied -- for example, stereoscopic X-ray images of the PMK's in
- their own light showing an internal 3D picture of its currents.
- Calorimetry can give us both total energy and a good measure, by
- subtraction, of a PMK's loss rates.
-
- And now back to dreams of buttering radiation blocks during heat and
- humidity of tomorrow's fusion times.
-
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