Does the extremely bright light or photonic energy liberated by the plasma spark actually combust fuel or is it wasted energy as opposed to a standard spark generated by an MSD box?
Yes! Fuel can be ignited using photons alone! As early as the 70s the gas turbine laboratory at MIT managed to run a gas turbine engine by bombarding it with photons alone, without any direct form of ignition. Since that time many patents have been filed to ignite gas turbines using photons alone. If thats not convincing, virtually all current Jet turbine ignition systems use a high energy capacitive discharge based plasma ignition system that liberates high energy photons similar to the RPG 4700 ignition module. Here is a demonstration video of a Jet Turbine Ignition module. Igniting fuel in a turbine is much more difficult than igniting fuel inside a closed Internal Combustion Engine and once steady state is reached ignition sparks are no longer required. However when ignition is required in a Jet turbine regardless of altitude or cruising speed, the spark has to be powerful and must liberate enough energy to ignite a fuel mix that is constantly being mixed with air and ejected out o
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