From: Uncle Al <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net>
Organization: The Noble Krell
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Specific Heat for a H/He-3 plasma
References: <aghbq6$cahc$1@saturn.cs.uml.edu>


Oluwaseyi Adeyemi wrote:
>
> Hi could someone please tell me what the specific heat at constant
> pressure (Cp) and density of a H-He(3) plasma at 100 million K are? I
> am trying to calculate how much thrust a fusion-powered engine with Isp
> 130,000 would produce, with the plasma being magnetically confined (only
> long enough to achieve ignition) operating at about 100million K.
> Thanks in advance.

Try an astrophysics newsgroup, or ask the Department of Energy about
its non-military (riiiight) confined hot fusion experiments. Or ask
the Russians. Given the temp it is probably a very simple ideal
system.

A Bussard ramjet doesn't do much of anything. A self-contained vessel
is limited to its initial rest mass. Current physics won't get us to
Mars in a useful interval much less out of the solar system in a
lifetime. Somebody has to find a loophole or finesse in relativity
and quantum mechanics. This can only be accomplished at the postulate
level, since both theories are internally self-consistent and survive
falsification by empirical observation... but are mutally
contradictory. An anomaly must exist!

http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/eotvos.htm
First, somebody has to look at something old in a new way - in
existing apparatus. No cheating!

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Uncle Al
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