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Ion escape might be a significant consideration, but given the plasma density and magnetic field strength, I'm guessing it wouldn't degrade the efficiency too m
by smaddox 4y ago
Ion escape might be a significant consideration, but given the plasma density and magnetic field strength, I'm guessing it wouldn't degrade the efficiency too much. Presumably they've done the calculations. I have not.
As for the input heating loss, presumably that's included in the 95% recovery figure. If it's not, then it would definitely be good to know what the actual figure is including input heating losses.
- DennisP 4y agoThe nice thing about colliding two FRCs is that they form a new FRC with all their kinetic energy converted to heat, and it's very efficient to accelerate an FRC.