Well, make it something that vaporizes at a reasonable temperature. The heat requires to vaporize tungsten would be outrageous; the heat to turn it into a plasma would be worse. You'll probably want to channel the plasma to the gate in an evacuated tube (vacuum) but that's not completely necessary. You could put a plasma emitter right next to the gate, but you probably wouldn't want to do that with a plasma made from a flammable element like hydrogenYukaphile wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2019 11:39 pm So, just charge it up with plasma. Cool. What types should I use? Remember there are six foldspace membranes in the larger foldspace universe. And within one, it's literal time travel, between the Star Wars realm (3,000,000,000 years in the past and light-years away), and the Star Trek galaxy (in the 24th century).
I'd use helium. As long as some part of the gate is cooler than the helium plasma, the heat in the plasma can theoretically be used for energy.
Here is a table to the minimum energy to turn the elements into a plasma: [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionization_energies_of_the_elements_(data_page)[/url]