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Isnt that basically ITER? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/a-star-in-a-bottle https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/a-star-in-a-bo...
by basch 7y ago
Isnt that basically ITER? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/a-star-in-a-bottle https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/a-star-in-a-bo...
- dwd 7y agoYes, but why just ITER? Can we really wait until 2035 at which point it's still just a PoC before working on DEMO, and how many DEMOs can we build quickly after that? There is promising work coming out of Lockheed's Skunk Works, using a completely different design and MIT has SPARC. Given ITER is pretty well locked in on the Tokamak design they've chosen and it a matter of building it, why not fund as many ideas as possible as while most may not work, you just don't know whether one results in a discovery and pivot that changes everything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_Compact_Fusion_Reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_Compact_Fusion... https://www.psfc.mit.edu/sparc https://www.psfc.mit.edu/sparc