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Not necessarily, it depends on how the reaction scales. If the reaction does not scale linearly (as is claimed) you don’t necessarily have to get more efficient
by ohyes 4y ago
Not necessarily, it depends on how the reaction scales. If the reaction does not scale linearly (as is claimed) you don’t necessarily have to get more efficient, you just have to up the power until the output curve has increased past the input scaling. How big that is is determined by the efficiency of the input device itself, but it isn’t a question of if it will ever happen.
- OJFord 4y agoYes, sure, it's just still a breakthrough or so (or at least work, I don't know how within grasp it is) away from what one may have (as did I) initially assumed. Tangentially, it does seem fairly intuitive that it should be non-linear in that 'jump start' as it were: a fire can be grown arbitrarily large having started from a single match (or flint or whatever).
- petilon 4y agoRight... look at some of the reactions: "In terms of the physics, we are basically there, and the rest of it, at some level, is just engineering," he said. [1] https://www.cbs58.com/news/wisconsin-reacts-to-breakthrough-in-nuclear-fusion-research https://www.cbs58.com/news/wisconsin-reacts-to-breakthrough-...