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As a very much non-nuclear engineer, I found this video [1] explaining different fuels, size, magnetic field strength, and the orders of magnitude physics and e
by elsherbini 4y ago
As a very much non-nuclear engineer, I found this video [1] explaining different fuels, size, magnetic field strength, and the orders of magnitude physics and engineering that goes into current fusion efforts.
Curious where Helion would put themselves on the nτE vs ion temperature plot he uses to evaluate how feasible a technology is.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_energy_gain_factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_energy_gain_factor
- willis936 4y agoHartwig gave a similar talk for SULI a few weeks ago. Really awesome stuff and accessible too. Note that he is assuming steady state confinement. Fuel viability is a more complex beast for high-density low-confinement-time plasmas. Scroll down for table of lectures. https://suli.pppl.gov/2022/course/ https://suli.pppl.gov/2022/course/ Slides https://suli.pppl.gov/2022/course/IntroductionToFusionEnergy_SULI_20220613.pdf https://suli.pppl.gov/2022/course/IntroductionToFusionEnergy... Video https://mediacentral.princeton.edu/id/1_u3eelkrl https://mediacentral.princeton.edu/id/1_u3eelkrl