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Have you heard of the Polywell design for fusion reactors? If so, what do you think? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly
by carapace 4y ago
Have you heard of the Polywell design for fusion reactors? If so, what do you think?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
Dr. Robert Bussard (RIP): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhL5VO2NStU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhL5VO2NStU
He claimed that it would only take about $200M of engineering development to become viable.
- ncmncm 4y agoMost people who have looked at it say x-ray emission losses would prevent achieving breakeven. I am not equipped to evaluate the assertion, but private investors have favored other designs. There is a split between thermal-equilibrium designs, like Tokamak, and those relying on non-linear plasma fluid effects to achieve much greater compression in selected places and/or times where fusion should happen. Plasma fluid dynamics is tricky. Plasma fluid radiology is harder.
- carapace 4y agoCheers! I'm not equipped to evaluate it either, just hopeful. :)