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If you haven't watched this yet, it's definitely worth your time. Rather than being a super opinionated think-piece, it instead does a fantastic job walking the
by runnerup 5y ago
If you haven't watched this yet, it's definitely worth your time. Rather than being a super opinionated think-piece, it instead does a fantastic job walking the viewer through:
- high level nuclear fusion engineering performance curves / the engineering design contraint space
- the current state of nuclear fusion research (as of 5 years ago) and
- breaks down why some new smaller reactors will likely begin construction soon and counter-intuitively, the most recently started ones may be completed before ITER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4
- est31 5y agoThat talk is a long pitch for getting a certain reactor design funded. Since the release of the video, a startup has been formed to build such a reactor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC_(tokamak) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC_(tokamak)