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Steam Resonator design session v5: best candidate (24.63kg/hr, 0% non-ohmic)

Sweep — Raise the fundamental into 1–30 MHz where a real cycle starts loading the Debye tail, but pair it with low-R chokes (lean on ωL, not resistance, for amp restriction) plus small C_geo (wide gap, short cell) and crushed σ (ultrapure near-freezing water) so τ_bulk stays inside the on-time and ωε₀ε'' finally beats σ.

Score 0.521 — 24.631 kg/hr steam, 0.0% of the heat non-ohmic

Cavity — 1 × coaxial T-304, rod 6.35mm in 20.35mm ID, 49mm active (gap 7.00mm, 14.4 mL water)
Drive — 1000V, 30.000 MHz sequential switchover, 45% phase duty, 5% dead-time
Amp restrict — pickup 1Ω + choke 1Ω resistive wire → leakage 20543.06 mA
Field — ⟨E⟩ 122.8 kV/m, establishes to 91% in the on-time (τ_bulk 6 ns)
Drive shape — BIPOLAR (cross-coupled switchover — field reverses each phase), 1.0ns edges → 5 odd harmonics counted up to 0.32 GHz
Debye — ε'' = 2.66e-2 at 30.000 MHz; water relaxes at 56.9 GHz → running at 5.27e-2% of the loss peak
Double layer — FROZEN OUT (charges 0.00% per phase, τ_EDL 8277.0 µs) — this is the amp restriction working

Heat budget

dielectric relaxation 4.527e+0 W   ← Stan's "particle impact"
double-layer cycling  8.865e+3 W   ← also amp flow
ohmic leakage         8.865e+3 W   ← the amp flow to restrict
= cavity heat         1.773e+4 W  (0.0% non-ohmic)
VIC resistive loss    7.596e+2 W
electrical input      1.849e+4 W  → thermal η 95.9%

Yield — 6.842e+0 g/s = 24.631 kg/hr, 1.332 g/Wh

Basis

Confidence: 0.70
Method: steam-debye-v1
Recorded: 30 Aug 2026
Published: 30 Aug 2026
Device: Steam Resonator
Component: resonant-cavity
Source Ref: design session v5
Notebook Id: 1674

design-loop steam-resonator dielectric-heating