X-Message-Number: 21950 From: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:07:26 EDT Subject: MHD generator --part1_128.2bfdb820.2c18f40e_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit An x-ray brain scanner will need a poverful electric generator to feed the klystrons whose entangled wave will pump the nuclear electromagnetism levels. My present day tooling effort is aimed to a demonstrator with 1 kW 3GHz generator. The final system, not for tomorrow yet, may need up to 10 GW of electric power, for too much for the main. The only workable solution is a magneto-hydro-dynamics generator. The gas may come from a burner looking as a rocket motor (with less constrains because it has not to fly) or a pulse detonation engine. This has been tested at small scale (see NASA document: tp210801.pdf). It seems simple and cheap to build. Scale extension seems not a problem, a 8 inches diameter pipe could produce 6 kW, for a large diameter system the problem is the electro-magnet. The best choice seems to be a berylium coil cooled by the burner fuel, for example CH4. Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_128.2bfdb820.2c18f40e_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21950