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TAE ahead of schedule on billion-degree hydrogen-boron fusion
- LatteLazy 4y agoIt could be as little as a few decades before we have working fusion power now...
- ncmncm 4y agoThis is one of only two or three fusion efforts that might have a future. The other two are chasing D-3He fusion, a much easier target that has certain drawbacks. Not on Earth, of course, because they will never come close to matching the cost of renewables, but they will be a necessity in the outer solar system.
- pfdietz 4y agoTheir H-11B reactor was the concept proposed by Rostoker, Binderbauer and Monkhorst back in the late 90s, right? That dog won't hunt, and they were told that then by multiple people. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235032059_Comments_on_the_Colliding_Beam_Fusion_Reactor_Proposed_by_Rostoker_Binderbauer_and_Monkhorst_for_Use_with_the_p-11B_Fusion_Reaction https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235032059_Comments_...