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Kapitza won his prize for low temp. physics but opted to give his http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1978/kapitsa-lecture.pdf" on nuclear fusion possibilities. I was interested in the plasma thin layer heat insulation effect he mentions, as I wasn't previously familiar though Kapitza says Langmuir first described the effect. Kapitza achieved a temperature gradient of > 1e6 degrees K over a couple mm at high pressure, indicating the heat flux was almost nil. The effect is apparently caused by by the higher mobility electrons penetrating deeper into the dielectric container wall than the heavy ions and thereby
My question then: can anyone comment on the limitations of the plasma insulation, and can some tough container, say quartz, be made that could confine a plasma under Lawson (density-time) fusion conditions?
mheslep
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1978/kapitsa-lecture.pdf
.leads to the formation of an electric double layer, the electric field of which is so directed that it elastically reflects the hot electrons.
My question then: can anyone comment on the limitations of the plasma insulation, and can some tough container, say quartz, be made that could confine a plasma under Lawson (density-time) fusion conditions?
mheslep
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1978/kapitsa-lecture.pdf
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