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She conflates ICF and MCF. There are numerous reasons to be pessimistic about ICF. MCF is quite close to triple product performance of a burning plasma, where
by willis936 5y ago
She conflates ICF and MCF. There are numerous reasons to be pessimistic about ICF.
MCF is quite close to triple product performance of a burning plasma, where self-heating becomes dominant. There is a financial hurdle going from a research device to a nuclear machine capable of burning plasma. People are doing it right now though.
https://twitter.com/jb_fusion/status/1506964692627034118 https://twitter.com/jb_fusion/status/1506964692627034118