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Instead of a ring-shaped tokamak with magnetic confinement, the thought came: why not a 1-dimensional Möbius strip? After a brief bit of web searching, it turn

Instead of a ring-shaped tokamak with magnetic confinement, the thought came: why not a 1-dimensional Möbius strip? After a brief bit of web searching, it turns out that the design exists, and it's called a Stellarator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarator And if you're ever thinking about building one at home, just try not to cause an accident. What's more dangerous than playing with fire? Playing with smoke detectors.

melony 4y ago
A desktop Z-pinch device is actually fairly doable to build at home, it's a (very) simplified version of the stellarator.
- sterlind 4y ago
  are there any builds you could link? I've seen people make Farnsworth furious on hackaday etc. and I'd love to see this.
  - melony 4y ago
    There are quite a few Z-pinch builds on YouTube I think
drran 4y ago
It just a vortex.
willis936 4y ago
Both stellarators and tokamaks appear as Möbius strips to confined charged particles. The key difference is that the toroidal transform is applied via induced toroidal current in a tokamak whereas it's inherent in the magnetic field geometry of a stellarator. We're in the middle of the golden age of stellarator geometry research and optimization. It's a very interesting problem with large payoffs for modest investment.