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It's such an amazing piece of engineering and fabrication that as long as it turns on and doesn't blow up I'll be amazed. If it actually works as hoped will just be a bonus.

Not sure how this discussion is relevant to the topic. From what I can glean, the spherical tokamak is a similar to a regular tokamak except the central portion of the toroid magnets is shared by all the segments. Some designs have this central pole basically exposed to plasma. Apparently the skinni...

The 7-X is a stellarator, a torus with 5 twists. It's like a tokamak, but the plasma path around the torus is the same length for all points in the plasma. This is supposed to help with drift and eliminates some modes of instability. The problem is they are really tough to design and even harder to ...

If your libido is bouncing into space you might have a problem. I think you mean albedo.

The concept is neat, but I look at this as a new heavy cargo hauler. They can put any cargo pod in the middle. How about a tube full of tanks? Or just getting more sushi fish to New York. As a way to make space travel cheaper, not so sure. In any event it's going to be a hell of a plane to see take ...

I'd really like to know how the pilot survived.

"meteorite based security" ???

good luck to him.

Northwest Nuclear Consortium is Carl and team's website.

http://lobby.nwnc.us.com/_layouts/15/st ... Home.aspx

Thanks Mattman,

Carl is great. Teaching kids how science can be awesome, showing the community that not all neutrons are scary, and generally building real cool things in the basement. Go Carl Go!

Oh, and the group is getting novel results which they publish.

Cheers!

"The symmetry of the design promises to make both simulation and test machines simple compared to some other designs." Then why, with there large budgets and ample brain power, haven't they done the simulation and built the test device? They took time money and effort to produce a lovely video. That...

Isn't that just a magnetic mirror? I don't get it.

I do power development in the Utility space and have history in tech development. Happy to make introductions or provide any help I can.

Jake

Agreed. Anyone have Dr. Park's contact info?

If the design works, which there is nothing there that says it does, it still has a serious first wall problem, worse than tokamaks. 4 MW per square meter. And the chief researcher talks about it like it is in the bag and the best thing since the dishwasher. That's generally not the preferred view p...

No idea, but Beryllium is very expensive, hard to machine and toxic. Pretty great material for the application though as it is transparent to x-rays, but not sure how it would deal with the arcs re pitting. http://americanmachinist.com/machining-cutting/understanding-beryllium I'm sure if they can g...