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There are much easier and cheaper ways of generating megavolts of electricity, I think the biggest barrier would be getting someone who knows enough about this
by Workaccount2 2y ago
There are much easier and cheaper ways of generating megavolts of electricity, I think the biggest barrier would be getting someone who knows enough about this to build it despite their skepticism about the validity of it.
- dotancohen 2y agoThat is what grants are for. And DARPA when something more specific, like this, is to be investigated.
- giantg2 2y ago"And DARPA" That was my first thought - the military would be all over this if there's even a remote chance you could build energy shields or something.
- CuriousCosmic 2y agoSure but for creating fairly uniform/gradual fields of static electricity over a large space? Electrostatic precipitators exist but they aren't large. Everything else I'm aware of that works on larger scales fails to satisfy the uniform/gradual aspect.
- J0nL 2y agoI remember hearing about this in the mid 2000s, someone at Brookhaven (US DOE/Army) jumped on filing a patent for it and dubbed it a plasma window. They found a use for it in particle accelerators to partition off sections that are under vacuum