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If anyone gets that kind of money, is merely "they were not asked to explain" good excuse for you? Anyway, what kind of error bars do these numbers have? We st
by rini17 5y ago
If anyone gets that kind of money, is merely "they were not asked to explain" good excuse for you?
Anyway, what kind of error bars do these numbers have? We still aren't even at Qplasma = 1. As Sabine says it went from 0.67 to 0.7 in 24 years. For me that's clearly too soon to talk about "typical setup".
- willis936 5y agoThat was a misrepresentation by her. NIF is not MCF, it's an ICF weapons program. NIF also gets healthy funding while MCF does not. Look at PPPL's FIRE 1976 report [0]. We've been on logic 0. Given that, the progress we've made with the discovery of H-mode, integration of superconductors, MHD optimization and control, and now empirical turbulence modeling is wonderful. These advances are reflected in simultion and in real machines as triple product increases. True nuclear machines are expensive. We could have made a Q = 50 machine in 1990. We didn't. Want to fund it? If she wanted to actually show the progress of MCF performance she would have plotted triple product vs. time, where gains have been made faster than Moore's Law when Moore's Law still applied, for a period that began before Moore's Law and is continuing past Moore's Law. 0. https://fire.pppl.gov/us_fusion_plan_1976.pdf https://fire.pppl.gov/us_fusion_plan_1976.pdf
- rini17 5y agoNot a VC myself but we're on startup funding platform here so I encourage you, go pitch it.