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| moffy:
I watched this video: about a group that are shooting copper discs at a plastic cube about 1cm3, with a bubble of hydrogen/helium in it. They manage to create a fusion reaction without the need for lasers or magnetic containment toroids. Of course the energy out is a lot less than the energy in, but it looks promising. Excuse me if you have already seen the video. |
| T3sl4co1l:
What's old is new again? Shiva Star I believe is the project that comes to mind. Tim |
| I wanted a rude username:
Is it just me or do all the inertial methods seem impractical for energy production? |
| moffy:
I don't know about how impractical the kinetic method is. Maybe in my naivety I am just seeing it as being much simpler than toroidal magnetic containment of a 100 Million C plasma. They only recover 80 percent of the energy, that leaves 20 percent losses. Guess like most things, it's the detail that will make or break it. |
| Amper:
Pretty much all pulsed fusion reactors like z-pinch are at best useful for research and understanding but most of them are actually built for weapons research. They all have some sort of "we will revolutionize the world" story to get funds but then later on after doing a few shots are modified for mil applications, laser fused and scalable fusion bombs. Continuous is the only way that actual useful power production may be done. If you are just after fusion, farnsworth fusor or beam on target is the way to go, you will have a nice neutron source but no energy production. |
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