Incredible manufacturing technology made possibly by plasma.

[Influx]

Here Are some of my mad ideas that I more or less conceived.


First on the list is something I call the Atomic Depository! AD for short. Basically it is on Ion gun, similar to the technology used in ion beam implantation for doping silicon, but instead operates like ion-deposition printer.
On electron gun, like those inside the CRT monitors, deposits a negative charge on the work surface and a high density positively charged ion current is then directed at the work surface. By scanning both the ion beam and the electron beam in a synchronized way so that the two beams do not interfere with each other, it should be possibly to construct a tree dimensional part.
The part would be built on the work surface just like on image is built on the phosphor coated glass inside the CRT display. The tolerance and resolution of the part would wary from crude to down all the way to nanometers. The ion work beam, that is, the beam that deposits the mass on the work surface, will be and can be made virtually from any element that is found in the periodic table! Plus the ion work beam can be made a homogenous mixture or a heterogeneous mixture to create end product materials and parts that would have unheard of strength, durability and resistance to corrosion. Plus the AD would give us on unprecedented control over the properties of the materials that could be made using this device. We would be able to TUNE the work material to get the desired property. By producing a million microscopic variations of a material and looking for the one that matches our desired properties we will be able to evolve super materials. Take solder for example, made of tin and lead, both have a higher melting point than solder, but, when mixed together, they melt at a much lower temperature! So these are only two different materials, if one were to take in to account all the elements in the periodic table and all the different mix proportions that are possibly, the amount of materials that one can make are in the trillions!
The AD would construct a integrated testing circuit, it would come complete with on array of tests and sensors that one could image! Inside the ITC will be the material that will undergo the destructive test , it was included there when the ITC was build. The ITC itself is tiny, comparable to a CPU. The ITC is made from a million cells. Each individual cell would test the material for a specific parameter. The information from each test would go to on outside supercomputer which controls the device. The supercomputer would find the two samples that more closely match the preprogramed parameters and mate them. The mating result would be another million samples inside a new ITC. And so the cycle would repeat until the parameters were matched. In a mature technology the cycle ideally would last seconds and be massively parallel, that is, there would be a million ITC's constructed in each cycle.
How difficult will this technology be to develop? IF scientist had a proper understanding of plasma and its behavior, this would be very easy to implement! In other words the most difficult part is the control of plasma! The computer science is already advanced to this point. Tesla gave us a hint at a plasma that can accomplish this. He once built a bulb that developed a plasma inside it that had no inertia! On the other hand once the first crude AD device is made it will quickly cycle through many generations and became a highly capable industry standard manufacturing tool. Why? Even the most primitive AD will be able to make parts that will better itself! The possibilities are endless.

I call this future technology PLASMAMASSTRONICS!

[Lloyd]

I've seen on satellite tv sci or tech channels similar methods of manufacturing, although what you describe may be much more versatile and sophisticated.

[Peron]

Have any other cool technology to share?

[Peron]

Great post.

[Influx]

SUMMERY

Previously I had made a brief post describing my plasma based manufacturing technology that I call the AD, short for atomic depository. The basic idea behind it is simple, a plasma beam is directed at a surface, where the plasma cools and solidifies creating a thin nanometer film on that surface. Many such films will be use to build three dimensional objects. If we can precisely control the plasma ion beam, that is, be able to scan the beam across the surface in the x y direction, while the surface lowers by the z axis, we should be able, in theory, to build any part, any shape in three dimensions.

WHY?

I am sure that any individual who frequently visits this forum, has hundreds of ideas by which to improve our existence. Some of us might even have thousands.
The question then, that arises, is, why have none of these ideas have materialized and why are none of these ideas hard at work benefiting mankind (humankind, for the feminists out there)? Lets say that even if one tenth of one percent of those ideas were actually feasible, the shear number of ideas that are floating around the net, and more importantly, in our heads, show that the feasibility should actually have a chance. So, then, why aren’t the world a better place? Lets put the conspiracy theories, the socioeconomic and the corporate politics aside, aside from these, what is keeping these ideas from becoming actual fact?
This has been my question posed to myself for quite some time now. I become on avid reader at about thirteen and about the same time I started spewing out many ideas that I thought would be cool if I could build them. I should make a point here, when I speak of ideas, I generally refer to technological innovations or some such.
When it came to science, I believed (and still do) that most of the technologies we have, were arrived at not by some proposed scientific theory, but rather through a long convoluted road of trail and error. I believe that many technologies, amazing earth shattering technologies could be arrived at through experimentation's. That is what I learned was in fact called empirical science! Much to my dismay, as my reading adventure continued, I learned that today ( at that time too) empirical science was hardly practiced at all. At what was even worse I realized, that the abstract science was completely useless for trying to apply it to everyday practical life. Meaning, for example, I could not find, try as hard I might, a practical application to the theory of relativity, general, special or otherwise. But I was shocked to see PhD’s embrace this fantasy based solely on math.
By the time I had reached high school I had learned to disdain the standard model and all those who pushed it. In my mind it was useless gibberish spewed by the narcissistic self important pompous fools, whose gibberish did nothing but hold back mankind form finding the one true science. One true science that would set us free, free from that which I perceived at that time as our jail and jailers. Earth the jail and it’s past, current and future leaders as jailers. What is the purpose of science? Is it a pure purist of knowledge, for the sake of that knowledge? What should the purpose of science be? Should it be to create countless jobs paid for by you for the pompous fools in the stuffy halls of academia? Who spew out useless irrational abstract ideas while consuming millions of tax payers money at the same time? The same ideas that are in the end completely irrelevant to our lives. How does dark matter, dark energy, non baryonic, or otherwise, benefit my life? Or your life? Or any one’s? While being completely and utterly useless to us, they, the ideas are illogical, irrational, lack even a modest amount of common sense! The PhDs that give birth to these ideas are as delusional as the ideas are irrational. Indeed the outlandishness of the crap that they spew has become a thermometer of the insanity that they have succumbed to. Granted I am not dismissing their mathematical powers, but math alone can not lead us to the truth. Math is just like a tool, and any tool, any object, can be used for good or for bad. If I do not know better, how then will I know how to properly use a tool? What of the universe, who’s tool is it? Ours? If so, then we best be learning how to properly use it! As our survival is in our own hands, for better or worse!
Unfortunately the worms that populate the halls of academia are now the new self appointed guardians, the new age royals of the new age religion, who guard the tools with irrational zealous denial and fear from those who approach the halls for honest study and understanding. As a result we have grown stagnant, and are festering in the wounds of our planet. Instead of turning outward, we are turning our problems inwards under endless layers of the virtual life, entertained by the endless uncaring parade of the dead and the dying. When, seeing them die, we fail to learn from their death.
The problems on this planet are massive, some accept it as normal, others beat their hands fetidly against the unrelenting tide of life, wearing themselves out to death. Since the problems are fairly well known, I’ll spare you the monologue. Let me just say that the solutions is in the empowerment. The empowerment of each and single human on the face of the earth.
We are in bondage, from the struggle to survive, death is always knocking. Therefore we spend our whole life working to stave of the death.
What if there was unlimited amounts of energy at the dispose of each individual. Real, raw, power! And the capacity to rectify that power into useful material things. How would the world look then? Where each individual is a massive power plant, a factory, a farm, a city, all self sufficient! Each onto himself and herself.
So my quest begun when I realized that it would be simple impossibly for me to develop, built and test any of my innovations. So my thought process became hinged on only one thing, the need for an advanced machine that would enable, cheap, easy and fast manufacturing of stuff. Roughly three years ago I finally arrived at an answer that was satisfactory to me. Even though this occupied my mind for the better part of the last decade, I think I hit upon something cool. So what follows is a somewhat better description of my AD.


THE PARTICLE FOUNTAIN

The first part of the device, is what I call the particle fountain. Basically it is the source of plasma for the machine. A massive electron beam vaporizer.
Mixed matter is dumped into a large hopper built into the ground. Large trucks pull onto a concrete pad, the hopper doors are automatically opened and the truck dumps it’s load of forty or so tons of “toner”. Depending on the size of the AD itself, the “matter stock” hopper maybe small, being able to fit into someone’s basement, or even be a table top device, or as large as a city block, being fed loads brought by trains. The hopper has massive air tight doors, so that high quality vacuum is maintained during the loading of the hopper and the operation of the AD is not interrupted. Arrays of hoppers may be daisy chained so that the supply of stock is continuous, and the vacuum is not destroyed when stock is being loaded into the hopper. Think of the hopper as a massive airlock. Some advanced units later on might use a plasma window to maintain the vacuum while allowing stock to pass through.
From there, huge steel rollers crush all incoming stock to the consistency of fine sand, the stock, may be dry or wet, this is irrelevant. Through a bunch of pipes the sand is brought to the particle fountain generator. The stock material goes into a small inductively heated crucible, where the stock is heated to a high temperature. Above the top of the crucible, a large electron gun, with a short linac, which accelerates the electrons to a quarter of light speed, focuses and fires the beam into the center of the materials stock in the high temperature crucible. The kinetic energy of the electrons is converted into heat flux and the stock is instantaneously flashed into a plasma. The electron gun is pulsed, synchronized with the inductive or capacitive heater in the crucible, so that their fields would not defocus or interfere with the tightly focused electron beam.
Due to the high em fields present in the crucible the plasma is shot out of the crucible at high speed, a magnetic mirror is used to block the plasma from flowing into the electron gun. A magnetic solenoid valve and a magnetic solenoid focusing coils, bent and focus and guide the plasma beam into a resonant plasma wave guide system. Basically a glorified neon tube. And again all of the magnetic solenoids are pulsed, so as not to interfere with the electron beam, and the em field of the crucible.
The operation of the particle fountain is as follows. Stock is brought to the em crucible, were it is heated instantly by the em oven. Than the inductive and capacitive oven is turned of, The electron beam is pulsed into the center of the oven, producing a cloud of plasma. As the electron beam is turned of the magnetic solenoid valve and solenoid focusing coils are turned on guiding the plasma into the wave guides. As soon as the stock plasma has cleared the particle fountain, the magnetic valve and mirror are turned of. The inductive and capacitive heating starts again. Ideally this cycle would be repeated, several million times per second. As the amount of plasma that is produced with each cycle is fairly limited, possibly a single pulse would produce a spherical plasma cloud that would measure several microns on a side. However in a mature, advanced technology, I see no reason why the particle fountain could not run in the megahertz range, or even in the gigahertz range. These tiny plasmids would quickly add up. Indeed to the human senses it would look like a solid beam.


THE PLASMA WAVE GUIDE.

From here on, guided by the magnetic valve and focusing lens, the plasma pulse, (it is useful and easier to just follow the footsteps of a single plasmid, rather than trying to keep track of the whole beam) …plasma pulse enters the plasma wave guide. The wave guide could possibly be nothing more that a glass tube with a spiral copper wire wrapped around the length of the glass tube. That way the plasma induces on electric field in the copper spiral that causes the plasma to self constrict. The em interactions are complex and the exact technology will need to be experimentally verified, trough trail and error.

From here on the plasma is dumped in to a linac again, and more focusing solenoids. Going through the linac the plasma is boosted to higher speeds and energies. Since the plasma is a mix of various elements at this stage it needs to be purified.


THE PLASMA PRISM

In comes the plasma prism. The plasma prism is nothing more then a very powerful, superconducting solenoid positioned on the z axis relative to earth and the plasma beam.
The plasma stock flows through the solenoid, and each element gets deflected by magnetic field in the “prism” according to the plasmas energies and weight. Heavy elements would be deflected less, while lighter stuff would be deflected more. So after passing through the prism the beam would be split into as many distinctive beams as there were elements present in the stock.
From then on the individual beams of plasma will be picked up by a wave guide pick up head and conveyed to a plasma storage system. Each element in the periodic table would have its own wave guide and a pick up head past the plasma prism. There would also be as many storage rings as there are elements in the periodic table. Or at least the storage rings for the plasma stock that an AD commonly works with. The plasma prism device functions similar to the electron spectroscope.

THE STORAGE RINGS

As the plasma leaves the prism, after being picked up by the pick up solenoid, it is guided to its own storage ring, basically a large tokamak like device, were the plasma circulates until needed. I like to call it the plasma capacitor. From there, the some what clean plasma, can be sent, and is provided a recycler pathway, more wave guides, where the plasma is simple dumped back into the linac stage before the plasma prism, to go through the process again, if needed many thousands of times per second, until it is completely pure. Before being stored indefinitely or sent to the plasma buffer. Ideally a single plasma storage ring would be able to store several tons of pure elemental stock plasma.

THE PLASMA BUFFER

This is a small magnetic plasma can, where the stock plasma is kept in preparedness to be used by the AD work head.

THE PLASMA REGISTER

The stock plasma is called up by the plasma register from the buffer, in nano-sized bits, where it is held ready to be deposited by the AD work head. The plasma register is controlled by a computer which loads the appropriate plasma and the amount, from the plasma buffer, for any given “build.”
A CAD file is uploaded to the AD control computer, the control computer reads the CAD file and creates the materials and the mass inventory. The inventory data is sent to the register, which in turn queues the plasma buffer to prepare the plasma and to stand by.
Lets image that the AD control computer determines from the CAD files that one hundred pounds of aluminum will be needed for a given build. It then sends a command to the plasma register, which then in turn queues the plasma buffer to prepare one hundred pounds of plasma and hold it there until further notice. This will be done for as many elements as the work piece is made out of. By the work piece, I mean that which is going to be built. Each element has its own plasma buffer and register.
Depending on the precision and accuracy needed in the building of the work piece, the register might perform precision conditioning of the plasma. For highly accurate and precise work, the register will provide pulses of plasma as fine as a single nanometer across. For simple filler material the register can produce large plasma drops in bulk. All in all the register should be able to create a billion bits of plasma per second of nanometer size. Indeed the register treats each plasma bit as a standard digital bit or more precisely, a pixel.
For example. A three-dimensional CAD file is sliced into a billion, two- dimensional pictures. Each pictures is converted into a high resolution bit map, where each bit is precisely assigned a position in a x y coordinates system. Each two-dimensional picture will most likely contain hundreds of terabytes of data. The bit, that is, each pixel carries information, but in this case not the color information, but mainly the following data. Element type, that is, for example, hydrogen, iron, carbon or it could be any element of the periodic table or as required by the “build.” The size of that bit, could range from nanometer/s and all the way up to micrometers on a side. The weight of that bit, would most likely be measured in the, femto and pico litters, this is needed for precise control of the work piece density and weight. The temperature of the bit and so far and on.
When the AD work head reads the sliced CAD files, it reads all this information, which has been more or less generated automatically by the control computer, as per the engineers, strength, precision, accuracy and quality specifications. While the control computer generates the necessary data, the plasma register actually generates the actual “hard data” on the fly at the request of the AD work head. So the register provides the real “hard data” bits that are needed to “fill in” the “bit map,” by reading the information in the two dimensional picture.

THE WORK HEAD

The work head reads the data files, the position of the pixel or where the bit of plasma is going, it’s type, weight and temperature and requests the bit from the plasma register, once the bit arrives from the register, the work head targets the work surface. The work head focuses its magnetic lenses so that the plasma bit lands at the precise x y coordinates. While the work surface moves up and down on the z axis, for precision control the work surface is mounted on piezoelectric actuators. These can fine tune the rough movement of the work table to nanometer precision.
The work surface is charged opposite that of plasma bits, so that the plasma bits “stick”. The work surface is also cryogenically cooled to remove the massive heat flux from the plasma.
Once a single layer is completed the work platform lowers by a predetermined amount and a new layer is build. This process is repeated over and over again, in a straight forward serial manner. Until the work peace is done. The work head works like on electron microscope, but instead fires nanosized particles of plasma. Electron microscopes have been build with subnano resolution, so it is conceivably that the AD head will be capable of nanometer precision.
The AD head communicates with all of the registers, all registers cycle one step ahead of the AD, so that the AD can work smoothly and continually. The registers keep track of the work flow of the AD head and at the same time communicate with the control computer, to stay one step ahead of the AD.
All registers are also linked by the recycler waveguides to the plasma prism, so the register can purge itself, if it “messes up.” Registers can also request a pause if they fall behind due to error or malfunction, or for high priority builds, registers can automatically delegate their shares to other elements register if those registers are idle.
Also many dedicated registers would be build for creating plasma alloys, of varying compositions and ratios. So that during design engineers can specify virtually on unlimited amount of materials from witch the AD can build the part.
There are two ways for creating alloyed “builds.” A dedicated register that homogeneously premixes the plasma. And the less homogenous way of mixing materials during the deposition process. The exact working of the registers, I’ll keep close to my heart, for now!
Indeed the material possibilities are endless.

WHAT IT MEANS

A square micrometer contains one million “hard nano bits.” If the deposition rate is one gigahertz, then one square micrometer will be “filled” in by the AD in a thousandth of a second. A square millimeter per second, at one nanometer resolution! Considering the fact that hardly anything requires such high precision in everyday life, this resolution would only be used for specialty items.
More closer to home, a square millimeter, has one million micrometers, that would be filled in by the AD in one thousandth of a second. Or the AD would fill in a thousand square millimeters per second! That is one hundred centimeters square. Large for almost all house hold goods. But wait, this is just a single layer. There are one million layers in one hundred centimeters. Therefore it would take the AD one million seconds to build a solid cube one hundred centimeters in all dimensions. That would take roughly two hundred and seventy seven hours! Or eleven days!
However this is just a single AD head working! The AD heads are microscopic. A single AD head plate will contain millions of these work heads all working in parallel! Divide a million by a million and you get one, one second that is! The AD device will be able to manufacture virtually everything instantly. Its actual speed will be limited by how much heat can the work surface dissipate. And with cryogenic coolers, I’d say a lot.

NOTHING IS SOLID

Consider for a moment the fact that hardly anything is made out of a solid block of building materials. But rather everything is made out of engineered thin walled metals, such as sheet metal. As in a body of a car. Or household items are made out of, mostly, thin plastics. Such objects would take even less amount of time to build!
Even faster build times can be attained by using less dense but structurally stronger “filler” material. Such as three dimensional isogrid structures. Three dimensional honeycomb structures, even all kinds of three dimensional geometric fractal shapes can be obtained and build right into the part. While using less material, being faster to build and lighter, the part would still offer strength advantages.
For example, a car engine block would easily lose a significant amount of its weight, if the internal solid metal was replaced by a three dimensional nanometer sized fractal tetrahedron grid. Similarly almost all man made structure would benefit from this technology.

THE BULK DEPOSITION MODE

Also the internal structure that require no precision, could be filled by a different deposition mode. The bulk deposition mode. Where the stock plasma is deposited amorphously without accurate targeting, as long as the bulk deposition mode stays inside the precision boundaries of the part, the build time will be drastically improved. This will also will slash computer use. The bulk deposition mode is like a garden spray hose. It will be used to quickly rough out the structurally none critical parts of the build. Then switch to the high precision mode to finish the more demanding areas of the part. Different mode of precision and bulk will be mixed and matched to get the desired part. Indeed there well be many intermediate modes (thousands, most likely) between the bulk and the precise modes.

FILL PATTERNS.

No doubt in a short amount of time, the deposition of the stock material itself will evolve into a complex science itself. It is easily foreseeable that thousands of deposition patters will be utilized. Spanning from nanoscopic to microscopic. Being either simple two dimensional or three dimensional patterns. Simple repeating ones, or highly complex fractal ones, all of these will be possibly. Given that the patterns and three dimensional structures can be changed on the fly, and at the same time changing the stock element, it will be possibly to obtain of unheard of performance from the structural parts that are build this way. All parts most like will end up being a mixture of thousands of different patterns, hundreds of different structural filler, and hideously complex “hyper” alloys.
These hyper alloys will be a mixture of many different alloys, trough the entire part. And the whole different areas of the part will be made from different alloy. The parts need not be homogeneous. No doubt, this AD technology would revolutionize even our basic assumptions about design thought.

STRUCTURES AND PATTERS DATABASE

As time goes by, a massive database of structural fill modes and patters will be obtained. Through experimentation and trial and error, the best ones will be found, cataloged, numbered and their structural load properties, thermal, electrical and all of the materials properties, will be described in the database. It is even possibly, even desirably, that a materials testing consortium be set up, for the evaluation and verification of the claimed properties of stock.
From then on a search engine will be made available to all engineers, where during the design phase, the mechanical engineer would input the desired properties for a stock, that is, strength, stiffness, resistance to heat or acid, or any parameter, into the search engine. The search engine would then find the materials that best match the desired criteria.Than all the engineer has to do is specify what is what in the CAD file, before uploading the files to the AD.

DEPOSITION CHEMISTRY.

Naturally some combination's of plasmas would be forbidden from being utilized in the AD. Due to the self obvious reason, mainly that, that not all reactions are safe, or useful. These reactions might end up being destructive. This will be the job of a chemist to exclude various dangerous chemicals from being made. The exclusion list might have millions of items on it!
Obviously not all of the elements of the periodic table will be used, such as the radioactive ones, or the environment polluting ones and the generally dangerous ones. The chemist and or a materials scientists will utilize the AD itself to test and evaluate generated new material samples. The testing itself will be done on nanosized samples to prevent large scale destructive events if two elements that are explosive are brought together. Once the parameters of the sample are found they are uploaded to the database, ready for use.

THE INTEGRATED TESTING CIRCUIT

This we be an IC like device that the AD builds. The AD, during manufacture of the ITC, will have built in all and every conceivably test that the material scientist can conceive of. The sample will be included in the construction of the ITC. The ITC will be very small, measuring millimeters on the side, and many millions would be build to evaluate a large number of sample in one go. Basically it will be a lab on a chip, integrated with MEM device for structural testing.

THE EVOLVER

Now imagine finding out you can generate new smart designer materials whenever needed. This would be simple. The AD, using the ITC, builds a million of arbitrary samples. Than tests each and one of the samples, until the sample that the most closely matches you desired parameters is found. From that sample another million of samples is build in their respective ITC. And the cycle is repeated until a one hundred percent match is found. There may be millions of such cycle until a match is found. In this way any conceivable material with outlandish properties can be “evolved”!

SELF IMPROVING TECHNOLOGY.

So let’s say we spent sixty billion dollars developing a primitive AD, sixty billion, I think is sufficient. Will it be worth it? Imagine now that the primitive AD can now make parts that will improve itself. It will be as simple as uploading new CAD files and presto we have a new part. How imagine that that part only marginally improves the AD, say less that one percent. Now imagine that a year later the AD has manufactured thousands parts to improve itself. All improvements were very tiny baby steps, but by the end of the year, what would the end result would be? Massive improvement! At the end of the year the device would be hundreds of times better than what it was at the start of that year. So much so that we would quickly ran out of ideas on how to improve the machine!
At this point, we ask, now what? Well, cheap and fast duplication of this machine, for everyone! Within several years the world would be completely transformed. Even if the original machine cost sixty billion dollars, the copy/s would be dirt cheap, figuratively and literally!

ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES.

Now each and every Joe Shmo has the ability to build, test and develop every outlandish idea that there can be. What sort of technologies will we see?! One can’t even imagine.
Imagine, sitting at your computer drafting, once done, several minutes later you have you AD make the actual part. If it does not work, simple throw it back into the hopper and it will shortly be recycled. And back to the drawing board.
If this process used to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and took years, now it will cost zero, and will take only the time you spent behind the computer with CAD.

[Lloyd]

* I think it's better to post short pieces of a few paragraphs, because it's hard to find the major points of a long piece.
* Here's part of an article on the need to advance fusion power. Is your material very related?
http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2 ... _torch.pdf
Ben Eastlund holds three patents for plasma processing techniques that could perform the tasks outlined in his 1969 article. Specifically, Eastlund has more recently proposed that his Fusion Torch/Large Volume Plasma Processor, or LVPP, be applied to the recycling of nuclear spent fuel from civilian nuclear plants and tank wastes left over from the Department of Energy weapons program. The LVPP would use an ultra-high temperature plasma to extract radioactive components from bulk waste products using a “dry” process, as opposed to conventional technologies that use acids or molten metals, and a prototype could be in operation in two years. On his website (http://www.Eastlundscience.com), Eastlund writes: The Large Volume Plasma Processor can be used to separate the elements contained in the waste on an element-by-element basis. The non-radioactive elements can be released into the environment after ensuring there are no radioactive elements contained therein. The radioactive components would be recovered in a form suitable for conversion to industrial uses, severely reducing the volume of material slated for geological storage. Furthermore, because the 10,000,000 degree temperature of the LVPP can ionize any material, the uncharacterized nature of the material in the tanks does not present a problem. The LVPP could significantly reduce the financial risk of proceeding with cleanup of the Hanford tanks. The “wet chemistry” approach requires the construction of large facilities that need to be financed upfront. Years will pass before their operation can be assured as a success. Any problems, such as a leak, or explosion of a minor system could delay implementation and cost millions in clean-up payments. The LVPP, a relatively small system, immediately begins separating radioactive materials. The material is injected as a slurry, ionizes in 300 millionths of a second, and is separated in less than 25milliseconds. Separated material can be removed as often as needed, continuously for many elements, to assure that there is never a dangerous inventory in the system. When the tanks have been cleaned, the LVPP can then be easily removed from the site. In fact, the tanks themselves might be processed by the LVPP.
The fusion torch, in the form of the LVPP or in other forms, has the promise of supplying the world with new resources and getting rid of our garbage and waste with no pollution. As Eastlund suggests just above, the fusion torch can even turn the radioactive waste containers into usable materials! What are we waiting for? Any true environmentalist who cares about the world should happily jump on the fusion torch bandwagon for 21st Century technologies, instead of crawling into the doom, gloom, and cold of the Stone Age.
EIR October 20, 2006 - Science & Technology

[Influx]

Here's part of an article on the need to advance fusion power. Is your material very related?

Yes and no. While my idea does bulk materials processing in plasma form, the AD can also manipulate that plasma for manufacturing. Its more like on assembler, except based on what I think is more easier to develop.

[Lloyd]

* Would you mind extracting the major points of your long post above? Your first post was easy enough to take in, but the long post is too long for me.

[Influx]

Hmm, ok, but I thought I was clear! Most manufacturing methods today utilize the subtractive process. They start with a large chunk of steel, for example, and cut away at it using various machines until they have the desired part or shape. Imagine instead an additive process, where you build a part from the bottom up using atoms. This is the promise of nanotechnology. However the technology to accomplish is hideously complex, such as the nanonites, or the assembler. And will most likely not be build for at least a a century.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spr5PWiuRaY <<<<<<< while this is what is imagined.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0m1cVqNsRA <<<<<<< this is where we are!

As you can see we have a looooooooooong way to go. But in my idea, where we use beams of plasma, ions, from the top down approach to accomplish basically the same thing as the nanotechnology assembler. But the big difference is I believe we have the technology to build the plasma AD NOW, as opposed to hundreds of years away. The long winded above post is just a description of the various parts of the device. If you skip the rant against the standard scientific dogma in the top of the post, the rest of the post seems pretty easily digestible to me. Anyway I am working an some illustrations, when I get done I will post them, once I find out how.

[Lloyd]

Influx: I am working an some illustrations, when I get done I will post them, once I find out how.

* To post an illustration you have to give it a URL, like on Photobucket. Then post the URL here, highlight it and click on Img, which means Image.

* Would your construction process involve something like electrical deposition? I don't know what the proper term is for it, but car makers use the process for applying paint to cars. I think the car is given a charge and the paint is given the opposite charge; then the paint is sprayed onto the car, which bonds the paint much better than non-ionizing processes do. This process seems to be similar to the process by which Mars north polar region was stripped of layers of material by EDM, i.e. electric discharge machining, and some of that material was deposited electrically in layers in the south polar region.
* A similar layering electrical deposition process could apparently deposit layers on a template to make a desired object. I've seen a similar CAM, i.e. computer assisted manufacturing, process used that doesn't involve plasma, but does construct objects in layers.

[soulsurvivor]

Would ceramics interest you?
http://www.heraldextra.com/news/article ... mode=story

[Lloyd]

Are you talking about the long-life battery that uses a ceramic membrane? It sounds impressive and valuable, but it doesn't say when the batteries will be available. Does it? And how is it related to this topic? Why not mention it in an appropriate thread?

[Influx]

* Would your construction process involve something like electrical deposition?

Well my idea is highly theoretical right now. It might be very difficult, all not even possibly to manipulate the plasma like an electron beam inside the CRT monitor. But yes the plasma would have to be very deeply ionized, that is, a good percentage of electrons removed from it. The plasma would be the anode, while with the electrons on the deposition surface, the cathode. However the processes that I wish to use is a sort of reverse sublimation. That is, I think it should be possibly to turn plasma into a solid instantly on the deposition surface, using electrostatic, magnetic, laser and cryo cooling.

Would ceramics interest you?

Yes ceramics are very interesting, and we have just barely begun to scratch the surface of what is possibly with ceramics.

A similar layering electrical deposition process could apparently deposit layers on a template to make a desired object. I've seen a similar CAM, i.e. computer assisted manufacturing, process used that doesn't involve plasma, but does construct objects in layers.

Precisely how my idea work too. But there are some advantages, if we can get it to work. Much faster, engines block like parts could be made in seconds. The part has the same strength as a normally made part, most likely the parts build by the AD will be many times stronger. We can use any material to build. The precision will be a million times better then three dimensional printers. It will be able to process and refine matter in bulk, virtually anything and everything. From trash to sewage to industrial waste, even nuclear waste. It would be an unparalleled scientific tool in, materials science, in chemistry, biology and many other applications.

[Lloyd]

* At 2' 54" into this video it shows an inkjet printer laying down layers of mouse heart cells to make a real mouse heart:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GwcT1ViM-hw&feature=related.
* By the way, in English we don't usually say that something is "possibly"; we say it's "possible". We say things like, "This is possibly the best one," or "It's possible this is the best one," etc. "It's possible to do this," or "It's possibly worth doing this." "Possible" is an adjective, which modifies a noun or pronoun. "Possibly" is an adverb, which modifies a verb, an adverb, or an adjective. In the above "possible" modifies the pronoun "it" and "possibly" modifies the adjectives "the best" and "worth".

[Influx]

Grammar Nazi,