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I think the improvement they made is orthogonal to the Tokamak Vs Stellarator issue do an improvement for magnet cooling in one is gonna help the other too.

• ncmncm 5y ago
  Two economically uncompetitive systems is no better than one such and one even more such.
  • freemint 5y ago
    You are aware that those all a research designs, designs optimized to probe the parameter space of reactors efficiently not produce energy efficiently. Huge difference. If everything is designed for energy ROI it wouldn't be a research reactor and have better efficiency today
    • ncmncm 5y ago
      The point is, even after they work out all the kinks, it will still be dead-end tech. They will just have wasted a lot of money that, e.g., could have more productively been handed to me to spend wherever I liked. A fraction of the money goes to support plasma fluid-dynamics physicists, which is not a waste, except insofar as they work on that and not something that has a future.