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Not close. This amount of money will get you some theoretical modelling at best, which is still nice because stellarators are infinitely more complex than tokam
by sigmoid10 3y ago
Not close. This amount of money will get you some theoretical modelling at best, which is still nice because stellarators are infinitely more complex than tokamaks. The real hope here is that they might solve the plasma instability problem of tokamaks, but the full picture isn't out yet. In any case, we're very far from a commercial stellarator.
- mpweiher 3y agoEr, they've solved the instability problem of tokamaks. They've already run it for 8 minutes, target is 30 and there don't seem to be any fundamental hurdles, just stuff to do to get there. https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5322229/01_23?c=5322195 https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5322229/01_23?c=5322195
- sigmoid10 3y agoNo they haven't. The thing is you need to keep it hot enough and confine it long enough to produce a Q factor large enough for an economically practicable application. We are like one or two orders of magnitude away from that. No magnetic confinement scheme has even reached Q>1 so far, so we're a long way from any useful power plant design.