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Every single one of them did work. Notice how none of them used nuclear fuel. Did you miss that? Do you think every MCF device made has been a reactor attemp
by willis936 5y ago
Every single one of them did work. Notice how none of them used nuclear fuel. Did you miss that? Do you think every MCF device made has been a reactor attempt? You're making yourself look foolish.
- ncmncm 5y agoIf you define "work", for a magnetic-confinement fusion device, as producing sustained fusion, no, they did not work. We aren't even talking about useful output; they reliably failed to confine hot plasma. Before you can even start talking about fusion as a technology to produce energy, you need to achieve confinement of (1) a useful mass of plasma at (2) a useful temperature for (3) a useful period. Without, you have at best a physics experiment. After you get all of 1, 2, and 3, you are ready to begin actual work on turning emitted neutrons into electrical power in an economically viable way. We have not had occasion to begin such work. If begun, it will predictably fail, for relentlessly practical economic reasons.