X-Message-Number: 13738 From: 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. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13738