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Fusion Is Having a Moment
- user6723 3y agoSafire plasma runs for hours.
- mcbishop 3y agoI love this Lex Fridman interview of a nuclear-fusion physicist at MIT: https://youtu.be/aJoRMFWn2Jk https://youtu.be/aJoRMFWn2Jk
- fnordpiglet 3y agoI wonder how a room temperature normal pressure super conductor changes the calculus - high temperature super conducting tape still requires a lot of infrastructure to keep it that cold. A super conductor up to water boiling point seems like it might change things for magnetic containment fusion?
- fennecfoxy 3y agoMore compact magnets that are easier to manufacture I imagine. CFS magnets are smaller because they're able to use the newer-est tape for it, but if LK-99 turns out to be a success it'll help them make things even more compact. I really hope CFS succeed, their idea of creating a smaller tokamak with much stronger magnets just sounds right inside my head. I don't know anything about fusion except the basics, but oh my god is it exciting to watch from a distance.
- fennecfoxy 3y agoUsually spectrum has great articles, but I feel like this one is kind of a non-article. It just reiterates some basic news that they've already covered in separate, longer pieces. Slow news day at IEEE ha ha.