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Steam Resonator design session v4: best candidate (3.83kg/hr, 0% non-ohmic)

Sweep — Decouple edge-rate from fundamental: keep the fundamental LOW so τ_bulk fully establishes a real field, then dump ALL Debye loading through ultra-sharp sub-100ps edges onto the 57 GHz tail, with tiny-gap/high-supply E² and floored leakage via ultrapure near-freezing water and LOW series R.

Score 0.516 — 3.826 kg/hr steam, 0.0% of the heat non-ohmic

Cavity — 1 × coaxial T-304, rod 6.35mm in 10.35mm ID, 100mm active (gap 2.00mm, 5.2 mL water)
Drive — 1000V, 0.100 MHz sequential switchover, 40% phase duty, 5% dead-time
Amp restrict — pickup 1Ω + choke 1Ω resistive wire → leakage 3467.14 mA
Field — ⟨E⟩ 495.1 kV/m, establishes to 100% in the on-time (τ_bulk 183 ns)
Drive shape — BIPOLAR (cross-coupled switchover — field reverses each phase), 100ps edges → 1001 odd harmonics counted up to 3.18 GHz
Debye — ε'' = 8.87e-5 at 0.100 MHz; water relaxes at 56.9 GHz → running at 1.76e-4% of the loss peak
Double layer — FROZEN OUT (charges 0.03% per phase, τ_EDL 14858.7 µs) — this is the amp restriction working

Heat budget

dielectric relaxation 1.762e-3 W   ← Stan's "particle impact"
double-layer cycling  1.377e+3 W   ← also amp flow
ohmic leakage         1.377e+3 W   ← the amp flow to restrict
= cavity heat         2.754e+3 W  (0.0% non-ohmic)
VIC resistive loss    1.923e+1 W
electrical input      2.774e+3 W  → thermal η 99.3%

Yield — 1.063e+0 g/s = 3.826 kg/hr, 1.379 g/Wh

Basis

Confidence: 0.70
Method: steam-debye-v1
Recorded: 25 Aug 2026
Published: 30 Aug 2026
Device: Steam Resonator
Component: resonant-cavity
Source Ref: design session v4
Notebook Id: 1670

design-loop steam-resonator dielectric-heating