![Object_Zero_'s tweet photo. WTF is a Gyrotron?
A gyrotron is a class of high power vacuum tubes that generates microwave radiation beams.
A gyrotron can produce a beam that is 20 GHz to 1THz, this includes a few frequency bands where the Earth’s atmosphere is transparent to radiation.
That means you can build a gyrotron that beams energy through the atmosphere.
What makes gyrotrons different to a lot of other beam sources is that you can already build a 1-2 MW gyrotron today. This means you can build very high power directed energy weapons with beam outputs that have frequency that allows the beam to travel through the Earth’s atmosphere.
This is an obvious dual use technology, it’s the basis for a directed energy weapons, and it’s also the basis for a Nikola Tesla type wireless energy transmission system.
How does it work? - see diagram on right.
In a magnetron (the typical type microwave that we are all used to) when operating frequencies increase, the resonant cavity structures must decrease in size, which limits their power-handling capability.
Gyrotrons are unlike conventional microwave vacuum tubes such as klystrons and magnetrons, in which the wavelength is determined by a resonant cavity.
In the gyrotron, a hot filament in an electron gun [1] at one end of the tube emits an annular-shaped (hollow tubular) beam of electrons [6].
This beam is accelerated by a high-voltage DC anode and then travels through a large tubular resonant cavity structure [2] in a strong axial magnetic field, usually created by a superconducting magnet around the tube [8].
The field causes the electrons to move helically in tight circles around the magnetic field lines as they travel lengthwise through the tube. At the position in the tube where the magnetic field reaches its maximum the electrons radiate electromagnetic waves, parallel to the axis of the tube, at their cyclotron resonance frequency.
The millimeter radiation forms standing waves in the tube, which acts as an open-ended resonant cavity, and is formed into a beam.
…
So by forcing the electrons to fly in this helical path and then squeezing the helical paths with a giant magnet you rip radiation energy from the electrons in the form of a powerful microwave beam.
Crucially…
Unlike a resonant cavity magnetron the gyrotron architecture is extremely scalable. You could build a 10 MW gyrotron or a 100 MW gyrotron.
This is one of those tech rabbit holes that you can fall down, and you can sketch a lot of very cool ideas. But nobody ever builds anything.
Quaise Energy build gyrotrons for drilling oil wells without drilling bits, but not many other people out there are making use of this tech.
There should be a gyro-transmission company and a gyro-defence company, and a bunch of other things.
Where are they?](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G_dKTIRXkAIkymt.jpg)
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I was very, very young when I learned about this patent. Haven’t watched television since.
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@AdrianDittmann But what if a deeper mind is adjusting the text for the shallower mind?
WTF is a Gyrotron?
A gyrotron is a class of high power vacuum tubes that generates microwave radiation beams.
A gyrotron can produce a beam that is 20 GHz to 1THz, this includes a few frequency bands where the Earth’s atmosphere is transparent to radiation.
That means you can build a gyrotron that beams energy through the atmosphere.
What makes gyrotrons different to a lot of other beam sources is that you can already build a 1-2 MW gyrotron today. This means you can build very high power directed energy weapons with beam outputs that have frequency that allows the beam to travel through the Earth’s atmosphere.
This is an obvious dual use technology, it’s the basis for a directed energy weapons, and it’s also the basis for a Nikola Tesla type wireless energy transmission system.
How does it work? - see diagram on right.
In a magnetron (the typical type microwave that we are all used to) when operating frequencies increase, the resonant cavity structures must decrease in size, which limits their power-handling capability.
Gyrotrons are unlike conventional microwave vacuum tubes such as klystrons and magnetrons, in which the wavelength is determined by a resonant cavity.
In the gyrotron, a hot filament in an electron gun [1] at one end of the tube emits an annular-shaped (hollow tubular) beam of electrons [6].
This beam is accelerated by a high-voltage DC anode and then travels through a large tubular resonant cavity structure [2] in a strong axial magnetic field, usually created by a superconducting magnet around the tube [8].
The field causes the electrons to move helically in tight circles around the magnetic field lines as they travel lengthwise through the tube. At the position in the tube where the magnetic field reaches its maximum the electrons radiate electromagnetic waves, parallel to the axis of the tube, at their cyclotron resonance frequency.
The millimeter radiation forms standing waves in the tube, which acts as an open-ended resonant cavity, and is formed into a beam.
…
So by forcing the electrons to fly in this helical path and then squeezing the helical paths with a giant magnet you rip radiation energy from the electrons in the form of a powerful microwave beam.
Crucially…
Unlike a resonant cavity magnetron the gyrotron architecture is extremely scalable. You could build a 10 MW gyrotron or a 100 MW gyrotron.
This is one of those tech rabbit holes that you can fall down, and you can sketch a lot of very cool ideas. But nobody ever builds anything.
Quaise Energy build gyrotrons for drilling oil wells without drilling bits, but not many other people out there are making use of this tech.
There should be a gyro-transmission company and a gyro-defence company, and a bunch of other things.
Where are they?
![Object_Zero_'s tweet photo. WTF is a Gyrotron?
A gyrotron is a class of high power vacuum tubes that generates microwave radiation beams.
A gyrotron can produce a beam that is 20 GHz to 1THz, this includes a few frequency bands where the Earth’s atmosphere is transparent to radiation.
That means you can build a gyrotron that beams energy through the atmosphere.
What makes gyrotrons different to a lot of other beam sources is that you can already build a 1-2 MW gyrotron today. This means you can build very high power directed energy weapons with beam outputs that have frequency that allows the beam to travel through the Earth’s atmosphere.
This is an obvious dual use technology, it’s the basis for a directed energy weapons, and it’s also the basis for a Nikola Tesla type wireless energy transmission system.
How does it work? - see diagram on right.
In a magnetron (the typical type microwave that we are all used to) when operating frequencies increase, the resonant cavity structures must decrease in size, which limits their power-handling capability.
Gyrotrons are unlike conventional microwave vacuum tubes such as klystrons and magnetrons, in which the wavelength is determined by a resonant cavity.
In the gyrotron, a hot filament in an electron gun [1] at one end of the tube emits an annular-shaped (hollow tubular) beam of electrons [6].
This beam is accelerated by a high-voltage DC anode and then travels through a large tubular resonant cavity structure [2] in a strong axial magnetic field, usually created by a superconducting magnet around the tube [8].
The field causes the electrons to move helically in tight circles around the magnetic field lines as they travel lengthwise through the tube. At the position in the tube where the magnetic field reaches its maximum the electrons radiate electromagnetic waves, parallel to the axis of the tube, at their cyclotron resonance frequency.
The millimeter radiation forms standing waves in the tube, which acts as an open-ended resonant cavity, and is formed into a beam.
…
So by forcing the electrons to fly in this helical path and then squeezing the helical paths with a giant magnet you rip radiation energy from the electrons in the form of a powerful microwave beam.
Crucially…
Unlike a resonant cavity magnetron the gyrotron architecture is extremely scalable. You could build a 10 MW gyrotron or a 100 MW gyrotron.
This is one of those tech rabbit holes that you can fall down, and you can sketch a lot of very cool ideas. But nobody ever builds anything.
Quaise Energy build gyrotrons for drilling oil wells without drilling bits, but not many other people out there are making use of this tech.
There should be a gyro-transmission company and a gyro-defence company, and a bunch of other things.
Where are they?](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G_dKTIUWAAEMC1_.jpg)
@AdrianDittmann They would hate it 😒
The “famous” Claude Code has managed to port NVIDIA’s CUDA backend to ROCm in just 30 minutes, and folks are calling it the end of the CUDA moat.
https://t.co/QDhkQNC75p
We’re cooking.
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You need to be posting some pics like Sheffield, Connor:
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