One of their documents said one was for containment and the other for compression (around the spark plugs)
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>wrote: > At 12:43 PM 8/16/2012, James Bowery wrote: > >> Critically, during the compression stroke the noble gasses are not in a >> conductive state. The helium atoms are likely very thoroughly mixed, >> although I'm open to arguments to the contrary. >> >> Moreover, when I talked to Bob, he said that the current through the >> coils was very low. I don't recall what the current was, but to achieve >> significant magnetic confinement you need high currents. >> > > I thought the purpose of the coils was to generate the high voltages for > the spark. >
