Scale to usable periods

JH Jan 2020 jotter.

1GHz on the plates and magnet.

1E10 atoms/s

1E20 per minibot.

1E10 seconds.

Want 1 minibot per second?

The factory unit takes clean feedstock.

For factory and refiner:

10 atomic distances minimum clearance.

1E-9m separation.

1E9 atoms per meter per head.

stream speed, 10m/s

1E10 atoms/second per head.

One minibot per hour from the fab unit would be 3.6E13 atoms per minibot. That 's a major step down from the initial idea but it means the deposition refining and manufacture is practical. Any larger and it's not. We can try increasing the atoms/s somehow, but I think the ballpark estimate is fair. So, what can we make with 3.6E13 atoms? It has to make the fab unit itself, to start with. Unless we can have an exponential production of fab units then nothing else will be scaled.

Small subset of isotopes will be mixing elements. Which? Is this problematic.

I've started a table of bucket sizes with 200 buckets, one for each isotope group. There are no elements with isotope mass clashes. Some buckets will be reject mixes but there's no element which hasn't a bucket to itself unless you count Tritium/Helium3 as necessary elements.

2E-8m separation

4E-6m collector

by 2E-6m high

beam length to be determined

process: load, clip, beam, unclip, each clip to store, no need to unload.

We need to gather more than makes a clip or a fab during its lifetime.

I've no idea how to hold the charged plasma or, more likely, to make it on the fly before it enters the beam. Where does that localized heat come from?

Coordinate system. I don't care where it is, I want to know how many north and east I am wrt the rest of the units.