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> mankind could never deploy them at scale because we simply don't have the resources. I don't understand what your objection exactly is. That's just a way to
by manholio 4y ago
> mankind could never deploy them at scale because we simply don't have the resources.
I don't understand what your objection exactly is. That's just a way to rephrase my statement: magnetic confinement, as it stands, is too capital intensive to ever break even financially, regardless of the experimental success ITER/DEMO might have.
- willis936 4y agoI agree if confinement field tops out at 12 T on coil / 6 T on axis. Double it and the story looks very different. Some light reading on this: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-plasma-physics/collections/status-of-the-sparc-physics-basis https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-plasma-ph...