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Subject: Re: Help me think this through
Date: May 05, 11:56 am
Poster: Jim Lux

On May 05, 11:56 am, Jim Lux wrote:

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> Electron bombardment of the outer shell is the most significant and readily apparent form of energy loss. These never recirculate! It would not be too far off to surmise that 90% of the input energy goes to heating the outer casing of the fusor. (Electron bombardment due to conventional electrons flow as in a vacuum gas diode.)

Just off the cuff... Say you had a multi grid system. Then, arrange the charge on the outer most shell to repel the electrons before they hit...

I don't know, this is starting to look more and more like a multigrid vacuum tube, with screen grids and suppressor grids.. No wonder they went to ion guns.

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>Richard Hull