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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 07:53:50 EDT
Subject: Building the energy power station for QND interferometers

Building the energy power station.

As seen before, the power plan is a big chemical laser 
burning up to 40 - 80 metric tons of fuel per second. It 
may be built in four steps:

1/ An electric discharge pumped laser would test the 
gas mixture in lasing conditions.

2/ A single injector-igniter unit would test the shock
 pumped system.

3/ A 10 to 20 injectors device would test synchronization
 problems.

4/ A full unit with 8 000 injectors could be built and tested.

At each step, the problem is not: can it be done? but: how
 (who) to pay for it.

For step one, the  system is a cooper vapor laser. Such
 powerful lasers are well described in the open litterature 
(classified limits abound in that domain). An electric
klin produces the cooper vapor, this one goes then in a
discharge chamber where an electric discharge pumps 
the cooper atoms. Outside a stack of bricks, there are two
main componments: The electric heathing with the
electronics control system and a powerful ultra high tension
transformer feeding the discharge. The heating parts can
be found in an industrial owen and the transformer in an 
industrial surpluses shop.

I am financing the klin: it will be used to "cook" glass blanks
for big mirrors exploited in astronomy, lasers and
photolithographics system used for making micro-scale
devices, such X-ray lenses. Another use at lower temperature
is to cure carbon-carbon structures. From start, all parts are
defined so that they can be mounted in the klin or
the laser. They can go from the one to the other in some
hours only.

The laser will tests the lasing conditions for cooper vapor
mixed with H2O and CO2 gas. That is, the chemical
environment of a shock wave pumped system. The klin will
be ready this summer and the laser one year later.

This is the first practical step in the QND project.

Yvan Bozzonetti.

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