MHD Core — Coffer Cut-away · drag to orbit · scroll to zoom
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granite coffer (sealed vessel) ·
Mercury working fluid · fill = 78% · auto-tuned ·
lodestone cage + crown (permanent field across the width, no coil) ·
lid arc-electrodes ·
B-field ·
wireless EMF output (when running) ·
telluric clock ·
resonance bell ·
plasma arc (when all conditions met) ·
outer granite containment box (wireframe — EM-transparent)
System Pipeline
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Frequency Alignment
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Design Checklist
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Telluric tap — Voc ≥ 10 mV
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Input power — P ≥ 1 µW
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Bell resonance — Δf ≤ 5% off ft
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Hartmann regime — Ha ≥ 10
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MHD chop signal — Vemf ≥ 100 nV
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Containment — EM transparent & Q ≥ 100
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Source & Vessel
Open-Circuit Voltage
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Voc = Et · L
Source Resistance
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R = 1/(π·σ·a)
Matched Input Power
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P = V²/(4R)
Empty Bell Freq
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unloaded vessel
Loaded Bell Freq fbell
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Fill Used
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MHD & Broadcast
Hartmann Number
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Ha = √(σB²r²/η)
Acoustic Pac
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resonant buildup est.
Streaming Velocity (amplified)
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Rayleigh × gcoupled = —
Faraday Byproduct EMF
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v·B·L — alternator signal, not the main output
Faraday Byproduct Power
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σv²B²V/4 — parasitic, µW-range
Switch Loss
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paid from supply
MHD Chopper — Primary Output
Pmatched = Voc²/(4Rs)
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supply power at R_s
Net Chopper Output
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broadcast power at fbell
Broadcast Frequency
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λ = —
Acoustically Resonant Containment Unit
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Required Cavity Length Lcav
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n · cgas / (2 · fbell)
EM Skin Depth δ
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δ = √(2ρe/ωμ₀) at fbell
Transparency Ratio δ/twall
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want ≫ 1 (≥ 100 = lossless)
Wall Acoustic Reflectance
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R ≈ 1 → energy stays in cavity
Cavity Acoustic Q
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material property
Impedance Ratio Zwall/Zgas
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≫ 1 → acoustically reflective walls
MHD Chopped Waveform
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The oscillating liquid-metal (gold) chops the telluric DC baseline (dashed cyan) at
fbell, producing an AC electromagnetic output (green) at fbroadcast.
At ELF, ground-wave coupling dominates free-space radiation —
λ ≈ — km, Earth-scale propagation.