~$100M was just a very rough figure that I threw out for scale. "Nine figures" might have been a better choice of phrase.
I don't think the attempt at WB-100/D establishes them as much more than a potential mortal threat to the careers and prestige of maybe half the fusion researchers in the world. At that point EMC2 might experience a full-court press against the project and the concept itself, with various eminent persons publicly insisting the idea is physically impossible and therefore an unconscionable waste of resources. EMC2 might then feel compelled to deploy the WB-7/7.1/8/8.1 results defensively to blunt the criticism while they try to get WB-100/D up and going.
Electron current in WB6 is confusing
Yeah.TallDave wrote:Just to be sure I'm following you, you're talking emitter>Magrid, right? And when you say "enter" I'm assuming you mean enter the region of the grid rather than the physical grid itself.93143 wrote:The inertia of an electron entering the magrid is due entirely to the electric potential it's just traversed, which is the largest one in the system.