There is another, relatively new fusion startup, called Fuse (how original ) that is hoping to use a Z- Pinch for fusion.
They have been pretty low key until now. Their website is pretty much just a picture and contact information.
Their concept seems to be somewhat similar to ZAP, from what I understand from this abstract: https://indico.cern.ch/event/985448/con ... bution.pdf
Anyone got more insights into this?
The founder and Chief scientist is Raymond Golingo. He has been working with Uri Shumlak for at least 20 years, and they coauthored most of the research papers and patents on the ZAP. He left his teaching position and his position in ZAP energy to start this new venture.
I wonder what is the full story behind all of this.
Thanks for the link.
So it is a MagLIF approach like Sandia's Z-Machine with better designed Marx generators.
I am not really a big fan of this type of approach as commercial machines need to generate quite large amounts of fusion power for each single shot to overcome the dead time between the low repetition rate of MagLIF.
The main issue is that all the ancillary systems need to be scaled for a "peak power" with a low frequency, instead of other solutions that aim for a lower peak power with an higher frequency rate.
) that is hoping to use a Z- Pinch for fusion.