Eric,
I do not believe that IR can travel through a solid metal for a significant distance. Do you have reason to suspect that the energy can escape by that method other than when it is emitted at the surface? Dave -----Original Message----- From: Eric Walker <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Oct 1, 2013 12:07 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Sound in a Vacuum On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:54 AM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: The thermal power exiting each square centimeter of surface area is well within reason when 10 micrometer material is used and should not cause a meltdown according to preliminary figures. If the mass energy of the fusion events is delivered directly to the electronic structure, as I suspect it must be in order to avoid fast particles and gammas, I suppose much of that energy would radiate away in the IR and higher frequencies as conduction electrons fall back from excited states. The system could even become something like a large cathode tube, with electrons boiling off at the boundaries (because of all of the energy that must be dissipated). In this event, I have no idea how much of that energy would feed back into to the phonon modes. Eric
