Skipjack wrote:This looks very different from the TED talk and I dont think that this has any potential for terretrial use, very much for the reasons that MSimon mentioned.
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OK just to clarify we have two different devices here. One is the ted talk device which we have almost no information on. I wish I could find out more but right now there seem to be no information that I can access. The second device is the one pictured(known as “magnetized liner inertialfusion,” or MagLIF. MagLIF) and I do not think is net power but a simulation.
The process relies upon a single, relatively low-powered laser to preheat a deuterium-tritium gas mixture that sits within a small liner.
At the top and bottom of the liner are two slightly larger coils that, when electrically powered, create a joined vertical magnetic field that penetrates into the liner, reducing energy loss from charged particles attempting to escape through the liner’s walls.
An extremely strong magnetic field is created on the surface of the liner by a separate, very powerful electrical current, generated by a pulsed power accelerator such as Z. The force of this huge magnetic field pushes the liner inward to a fraction of its original diameter. It also compresses the magnetic field emanating from the coils. The combination is powerful enough to force atoms of gaseous fuel into intimate contact with each other, fusing them.
So we need to decide which one were talking about or confusion is going to abound.
I am not a nuclear physicist, but play one on the internet.
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