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Pain #2: Eat My Plasma Jets!
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Pain #2
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish
Now Eat My Plasma Jets!
If, piled upon if, piled upon if, is a big hot fresh steaming pile of if. But, if the plasma resonator cells I talked about in Pain #1 pan out, the hypothetical Tesla Cells, then there may be all sorts of other collateral benefits to that, and collateral damage. But even if they work completely as I imagine, there is still no guarantee that it will be well enough to be of practical use, with a usable level of output. Assuming so, assuming assumptions assumed, multiple phases of this output can be combined in different ways, for different effects, including hypothetical plasma jets.
Plasma rockets of a sort have already bean developed by NASA, in the form of the VASIMR system, a system with a high input energy demand, which difficult to satisfy short of using something nuclear onboard to power it, sidelining the technology as is to some extent. If the Tesla Cells can work well enough, they’ll have a naturally very high frequency output, although not necessarily, the highest power levels. But the high frequency output may be a special value and power in and of it self. When high frequency power is supplied in multiple phases, and carefully applied in sequence, all sorts of plasma based technologies may be possible, including hypothetical plasma jets.
With at least three phases of high frequency power, applying that power in a repeating linear sequence to a hypothetical air shaft, with net phase propagation linearly along the length of the shaft among all the oscillators driven by the polyphasic power supply, plasma jets may be able to be created, that don’t necessarily require a nuclear onboard power supply. This high frequency power must be applied to oscillators that may have to take relatively low power, but power at high frequency, and transform it, essentially leveraging it’s amplitude up for maximum effect, maximum electromagnetic perturbation. In my mind I always visualize Tesla coils doing this, but Tesla coils may not even be the optimal device for this task, especially at the nanotech scale where I think it will be most effective, both within the Tesla Cell, as well as the individual oscillators driven by them.
The individual oscillators themselves might be visualized as a Tesla Cell cut in half and placed on one side, with the open side up, a Tesla Cell in the half shell. It would no longer be contained within a vacuum chamber, but still largely surrounded by the Faraday cage, but with the top of the Faraday cage shielding enclosure open, forming essentially a Faraday cup, and with the opening level with the large circular plate just above the secondary coil of the Tesla coil. Static or slow moving magnetic fields pass through a Faraday cage, while rapidly changing magnetic fields of high frequency do not, which is crucial to able to have Tesla coils operating side by side, but slightly out of phase with each other, without undue interference through mutual inductance with the coils of adjacent oscillators.
It must also be noted that with extremely high frequencies, where the wavelength is shorter and therefore smaller than the individual openings within the Faraday cage, the cage will then become permeable to that frequency. Only a solid material will do, and even then, perhaps not just any conductor. And internally shielded as well, against internal random chaotic discharges between the coils and the sides of it’s individual enclosure.
If the result can be strong enough to ionize a solid material for acceleration, that constitutes a plasma rocket. Even short of that, if it’s strong enough to ionize air at one end for acceleration along the shaft, that constitutes a plasma jet. How strong becomes the only question then as a practical matter. Weak plasma jets exist as small novelty space heaters. With a much higher frequency power supply, and at least three phases of power, the power of resonance may provide leverage on the problem, superior to the brute force of going nuclear, not that there’s anything wrong with that necessarily.
An array of oscillators may be placed in either a conical or a wedge/scoop shaped funnel may be employed to precharge the air at the intake, and compress the intake, prior to electromagnetic acceleration down the shaft of the plasma jet, with three phases of high frequency power, applied in repeated sequence so as to supply high frequency electromagnetic perturbation with phase propagation down the length of the shaft, from front to back. This may be may reversible if a similar intake structure is applied to the back as well. This intake on the back can double as an electromagnetic thrust vectoring on the plasma jet exhaust.
Along the shaft itself one may opt for a binary configuration where complementary opposite oscillators are placed in two arrays on either side of the shaft, where every oscillator on the bottom is paired with it’s complementary opposite, with the opposite phase, on the top, and with phase propagation among it’s adjacent oscillators, propagating down the shaft. Otherwise, a ring type may be used where an oscillating potential of high frequency is applied to a ring or a coil surrounding the shaft, with phase propagation among the oscillating adjacent rings down the shaft.
With the potential for greater efficiencies resulting from hypothetical nanotech scale solid state electronics, all sorts of other configurations can be envisioned. One could even turn the apparatus inside out, directing it outward from nanotech electronics embedded within the surface of a wing, or even the entire vehicle. Electromagnetic control surfaces could replace the old fashioned mechanical wing flaps. Or we may even be able to make plasma kites made up entirely of such control surfaces, flying on winds of it’s own making, as the it’s control surfaces would have the effect of altering the wind patterns within it’s immediate vicinity. Or we could slow the whole thing thing down and open it up, and create plasma balloons.
Lighter than air vehicles, AKA blimps, become lighter than air because they enclose large volumes of material that is lighter than air, so that the overall mass is less dense than the surrounding air, creating net buoyancy as a result. Hot air balloons do this by heating the air inside a large balloon. The excess flows out of the bottom opening as the heated air expands. A proper blimp does this by containing large bags of very low density gas like Hydrogen or Helium, within a large rigid of semi-rigid structure that doesn’t require the ability to expand or fill up with hot air like a hot air balloon.
With the sort of plasma technology I imagine to be possible, giant rigid structure plasma balloons could be designed and built, with giant plasma chambers that would essentially be giant bulbous round plasma jets, taking in and ionizing air at the top, while electromagnetically heating and accelerating the resulting plasma along the inside surface of the plasma balloon, and out of the bottom through exhaust vents. Once reaching the Ionosphere and above, the naturally high energy charged particle environment becomes like an expressway for such a technology, since air doesn’t have to be ionized at the intake, and outwardly directed electromagnetic propagation systems as already described, will have naturally increased traction likewise as a result.
The key advantages to such a technology would the combination of the ease with which it reaches the very border of space without relying on potentially explosive chemical rockets, combined with the safety of buoyancy. Because buoyancy doesn’t just turn off, even in the event of a catastrophic power failure for some hypothetical new power supply, you’re not just going to fall out of the sky no matter what. The only limits of the hypothetical Battlestar Galactica sized space ships, are questions of structural integrity, how well can you physically hold the giant mass together without it falling apart on it’s own accord otherwise. Entire cities could hypothetically be floated in this manner, if you can hold it all together under the influence of the floating.
If we consider an array of three binary sets oscillators, six strips of oscillators lining the hypothetical shaft, of a hypothetical plasma jet, then we may consider applying a corkscrew phase propagation, as a kind of plasma rifling. The term rifle comes from the rifling of the gun barrel, that instills a spiral corkscrew motion in the bullet, improving accuracy and effective range. With circular phase propagation between the three sets of complimentary oscillator arrays running the length of the shaft, occurring simultaneously with the longitudinal phase propagation along the length of the shaft, a spin can be instilled within the plasma, inducing a magnetic field within the plasma, supposedly containing the plasma, keeping it together potentially as group, flying though space towards some hypothetical target.
Accelerating the plasma length wise by itself will induce a magnetic field to some extent, but shaping the resulting magnetic field within the hypothetical plasma rifle barrel will be key to shaping it in such way that it maintains itself beyond the barrel. There may even be need to apply amplitude modulation to allow the plasma to bunch itself up without having the bunches within the resulting stream destabilize each other. There is of course no reason to assume that plasma will be nearly so well behaved and predictable, anything but. The self organizing behaviors of the plasma it self must be considered, and for much of that, the long hard hours of experimentation by proper professionals will be indispensable here. So I will not attempt to dispense with it, but just move on with the dutiful recognition of my own personal limitations as a mad scientist.
Beduh Beduh Beduh Beduh Beduh Beduh Beduh…
That’s All For Now Folks!
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