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If anyone was wondering, like me, why it took over ten years to assemble this thing: The video at the end gives you a good idea. I wonder how anyone goes about
by hschne 3y ago
If anyone was wondering, like me, why it took over ten years to assemble this thing: The video at the end gives you a good idea.
I wonder how anyone goes about planning such an enormous effort.
- _Microft 3y agoTime lapse of the assembly of Wendelstein 7-X: https://www.ipp.mpg.de/1727365/zeitraffer_w7x https://www.ipp.mpg.de/1727365/zeitraffer_w7x This is the assembly of Wendelstein 7-X, also over the span of a decade. It is a stellarator-type test reactor in Germany. Stellarators offer the advantage of possibly continous operations while tokamaks need to be pulsed but that necessitates a lot of contorted coils.
- freeqaz 3y agoDirect link for anybody interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eno5410tO0g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eno5410tO0g (Also in case of bitrot from the original article dying)
- MichaelZuo 3y agoThanks, it looks like a very big project.
- Timshel 3y agoIf you want more details on tokamak construction there is recent videos done on Iter by : - Up an Atom : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5RxUW7VC-A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5RxUW7VC-A - Practical Engineering : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3dMzv1vIQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3dMzv1vIQ And for the french speaker an older take from Monsieur Bidouille : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36WpRwY2DYw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36WpRwY2DYw And there appear to be a dedicated YT channel : https://www.youtube.com/@iterorganization/videos https://www.youtube.com/@iterorganization/videos