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| | UNITED STATES PATENT Eastlund Patent Number: 4,686,605 Date of Patent: Aug. 11, 1987 METHO |
 | | In the EBT, the ring electrons are produced with an average "temperature", of 250 kilo electron volts or kev (2.5 X 10^9K) and a plasma beta between 0.1 and 0.4; see, "A Theoretical Study of Electron Cyclotron Absorption in Elmo Bumpy Torus", Batchelor and Goldfinger, Nuclear Fusion, Vol. |
 | | The region is excited by electron cyclotron resonance heating of electrons which are already present and/or artificially created in the region to thereby increase the charged particle energy and ultimately the density of the region. |
 | | Since electron cyclotron resonance heating is involved in the present invention, a brief discussion of [...] Referring now to the drawings, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for altering at least one region of plasma which lies along a field line, particularly when it passes through the ionosphere and/or magnetosphere. |
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