Jed Rothwell wrote:
I think Brian wants them to measure power going into the power
supplies. That sounds like a good idea to me. Probably a lot is lost
between the power supply input and the reactor core, but you could
still compare a null run to an excess heat run. You could confirm that
the apparent excess is not coming through the power supply that
produces the fancy waveform.
Yes. That is the heart of the problem.
If you need a complex waveform to show gain and it entails losses to
produce that waveform, then that those losses are part of the input
requirement and it is disingenuous to claim otherwise.
Thus a gain of say 150% is reduced to almost no gain... if the waveform
is lossy... and the result is what Brillouin does not want to admit:
almost no net gain.
