plasma and electric current

There is plenty of superheated ionized gas in a star. The problem is getting close enough to it to do anything. Your probes (electrodes) will melt!

A plasma is not a source of power. It is more like a hive of bees that has been disturbed. Excess absorbed energy moves the atoms to a higher energy level and it throws off photons to jump back down to a lower energy level.

If you find your cheap high temperature source, use it to boil water. You will be able to do a lot more with the super heated steam due to expansion (pressure).

It appears as if someone has stumbled upon one of Dennis Lee's scam devices.

Plasma Some uses of plasma in power generation.

Regards JD.

As the electric field intensity (due to voltage ACor DC) is increased first corona appears in the gap creating ozone, as the voltage goes higher then arcing as the air paths become ionized and then higher voltage creates a continuous plasma power arc. The plasma is hotter then the sun.

The plasma is created by a voltage field, and sustained by voltage and current.

I'm interested to see it influenced by a magnetic field which I think it could be because it has created a conductor of the air.

Hello Guest,

<"....this leaves us with the question how can we get a cheap very high temperature source....">

You are absolutely correct, in that Question.

It is a question to which there is no answer, because Energy must always come from somewhere.

Heat energy is a form of energy.

Thus to obtain the Plasma, more power input is needed, than useful power output, because of losses in every process.

It is a basic Law of Physics.

Kind Regards....

You're saying that because a plasma has free electrons, that placing a magnet in a plasma will result in current flow through the magnet.

You do not need a plasma to create an environment with free electrons. Tap water contains free electrons. Not as many as a plasma but there should be enough to test your hypothesis.

Just put a magnet in a tank of tap water and see if you get current flow. If you do not get any current flow in tap water you would not get any in a plasma either.