RE: Superconductivity

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Original poster: "Pete Komen by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <pkomen-at-zianet-dot-com>

Jason,

A couple ideas come to mind.

Any "explosion" of the gas is from the plasma channel outwards.  No blowing
effect would happen.

Other than the area cooling effects, the main electrodes are not cooled by
the nitrogen.

I don't see any benefit over a triggered vacuum gap.  Maybe you could supply
nitrogen to all three electrodes.  (Does liquid nitrogen conduct?)

Why not a copper T center electrode with end caps drilled in the center,
thus supplying nitrogen directly into the two outside gaps?

Other than electrode temperature, I don't visualize any benefit, though, I
hope you can find something.

Regards,

Pete Komen

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Subject: Re: Superconductivity

Original poster: "Jason Johnson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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<snip>
 Now when you trigger the gap with a flow of LN present the main arc
channel would form as usual, but as soon as the hot plasma came into contact
with the very cold nitrogen (it probably wouldn't be in liquid form by now,
but would still be cold enough to work) there would be a small "explosion"
of sorts which should completley blow out the arc present in the gap, along
with keeping the main electrodes quite cold, which should reduce power
arcing from hot metal ions in the gap. With a good flow of supercold
nitrogen the gap should be able to operate to very high repetition rates
without any problems.

<snip>
Jason Johnson