Just so we have it, General Fusion and maybe others are working on a fusion reactor that uses liquid metal to compress the plasma instead of lasers, which is so

Just so we have it, General Fusion and maybe others are working on a fusion reactor that uses liquid metal to compress the plasma instead of lasers, which is sort of a fusion Diesel engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion Based on designs from 1971: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_(fusion_experiment) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_(fusion_experiment) Based on a water hammer reaching such high compression that fusion occurs, so basically anyone could build it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_hammer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_hammer Unfortunately I'm having a hard time finding the Q value, they probably either don't know it or are keeping it obfuscated to keep the funding flowing: https://generalfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/aps-mhd-stability.pdf https://generalfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/aps-mhd... My guess is that turbulence and frictional losses in the metal might prevent getting over unity, but since the goal is to heat the metal to run a turbine, maybe that doesn't matter. Also it sounds like they are trying to manufacture tritium rather than generate electricity. Noise could also be an issue, but it's "easy" enough to put it in a vacuum chamber like this one: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1281.html https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1...