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https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.155101 Anyone have access to the full article? They mention they have a "basis" for scaling laws now, curious to know their scaling laws for Zap. I do not have the paper and I could not find it so far, but the Fusion power was expected to scale to th...

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Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:05 pm

unfortunately it sounds like we won't get to see Polaris break Q>1 this year

That is not certain yet.

They should get in contact with Avalanche fusion and discuss about using their feedthrough technology. They could than expand their working parameters space to a degree where practical tests would make more sense than investing into simulations. They are doing both, but I assume that they want to g...

TAE vs Helion in a nutshell, and indeed, Helion is on a faster track to commercial fusion electric power. The unknowing layman may do the reflection that the faster you push in the energy needed to reach the required conditions, the faster the instabilities should evolve. But I guess they have done...

Yeah, just saw that.

Slow news lately, but here is a bit from Helion about their upcoming capacitor installation at Ursa:

Several so called "green NGOs" have already started to gear up against fusion. Greenpeace is one and I think Friends of the Earth is another, but I might be mixing them up with a different one (there are so many).

Link to short Helion- video on Twitter: Capacitors are cooking in the capacitor kitchen! These windings have more than 2,000 layers of thin metallized plastic film. Once completed in our winding machine, every winding undergoes rigorous electrical testing and further assembly before being installed ...

I wonder whether their formation test section campaign is aiming to achieve just that. To my understanding the separation between Te and Ti happens during the formation, whereas the two temperatures want to return to equilibrium during the compression stage but again, the total pulse length is too ...

believe they only said they had recaptured 95% of the compression energy in a smaller machine, which is entirely different from capturing 95% of the total energy of a fusion pulse (maybe someday!)... remains to be seen experimentally what fraction of fusion product energy can be captured magnetical...

Some of the naysaying is highly likely linked to entities seeking to undermine positions of others in order to improve their own. Specifically along the lines of funding access and levels and additionally costing for access to other's work. Given the jump in money made available for fusion efforts ...

Additional: Thinking about some of the things I remember hearing and reading and looking at the paper again, most particle losses would follow the magnetic field lines and leave the FRC axially towards the divertor. It could be feasible to assume that they would induce charges in the acceleration co...

Ions & electrons don't thermalize in a pulse operation which is a big point in a pulse operation and improves direct magnetic recovery efficiency. Quartz is transparent to UV, but I do not know how much of the X-rays will pass, quartz is certainly not opaque to X-rays though and the tube is not tha...

Bremsstrahlung is not that high. It is more like 5%.