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The presentation was well done but I see some difficulty with the approach. The time that the fuel ions have to interact with others is about a millisecond if I
by ohiovr 4y ago
The presentation was well done but I see some difficulty with the approach. The time that the fuel ions have to interact with others is about a millisecond if I understood the presentation. If the plasma pressure is 1000 times higher than a tokamak, considering the limited time how does that effect yield? I hope it is better than 1000 * .001.
How is the reaction bootstrapped if the fusion products fly into the walls (or through the walls), instead of the fuel as it burns? Harnessing energy electrically the way described would really only work if it was happening either during, or immediately after the bootstrapping process was exhausted.
But if energy is being bled away without being replaced by energy products of fusion, it would simply get cold. Some of the energy of the shot can be reclaimed but not much of anything else.