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It's only a start, there may be better technologies when we actuallu do have TW-scale fusion plants. Like TW-scale heat pumps using nanopatterned laser emitters
by yetihehe 3y ago
It's only a start, there may be better technologies when we actuallu do have TW-scale fusion plants. Like TW-scale heat pumps using nanopatterned laser emitters to get rid of the heat at super high temperatures (remember, that energy emitted is temperature^4 [0]). There already are technologies for this, but we don't need them yet.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law