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I think the chart shows it decelerating at about 10^-6 ms-2, though I'd very much welcome a second opinion.

If that's right a milli-newton should easily correct that acceleration.

Why do you assume they don’t expect them to work? Either: 1) They expect it to work (rightly or wrongly) 2) Something else (so its a scam) I can’t think of any sane reason to put it on a satellite in case 2. So I’m tempted to conclude that 1 must be true. However, I was wondering if others had a be...

Can anybody speculate on what they might be trying to do if they don’t expect it to work?

Chill! No one said it was a scam.

We just understand better if we consider erosion an important problem they are working on, rather than something which can be dismissed as detail.

They mention electrode feed-through, transpiration cooling, and a liquid metal surface layer. As I read it they have ideas but not a design yet.

3 kg per hour erosion of graphite cathode is quite a number. With 200MWh of power to pay for that, it sounds very significant. Sounds like they need some orders of magnitude of mitigation.

Well, re-reading the release it’s an undated proposal with Nucor, so who knows…

Thanks: so, barring something surprising, the 2028 Nucor power will be 50MW units, I surmise.

Yet undetermined. They can generally build these machines as big as they want. So it it could be one or 10 or anything in between. Real hard to believe that $/KWh and is not a function of size. There is surely an optimal size. Staff/control systems feel like they ought to give economies of scale. I...

I'm sorry. They have a website kronosfusionenergy.com that just screams 'scam'. I didn't bother clicking on 'buy a fusion energy generator'...

I think they actually put the cross-section data for DT,DD, DHe3 upside-down...

This is actually a deal more interesting and informative, though still brief: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/08/16/2499509/0/en/Carl-Weggel-Joins-Kronos-Fusion-Energy-and-Designs-S-M-A-R-T-a-Revolutionary-Fusion-Energy-Generator-Being-Built-by-Kronos-Fusion-Energy.html Seems like at...

https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/6531136 ... nic-fusion

I can see this from the UK.

On an optimistic note, a casual observer would assume that taking an HTSC superconducting tape and replacing the ReBCo layer with another substance might be quite straightforward. I recall it took years for the HTSC superconductors to be formed into something like wire. It doesn’t feel like we’d nee...

Tokamak Energy signs collaboration agreement with Sumitomo Corp...

https://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/2023/07 ... on-energy/

I posted a question on their contact page.

You may well be right, but it has the feel of a bad surprise for them.