4 ms·
I saw this presentation by Dennis Whyte years ago and it left me really optimistic about Sparc/Arc's chances... He goes through a lot of the interesting design
by nielsbot 3y ago
I saw this presentation by Dennis Whyte years ago and it left me really optimistic about Sparc/Arc's chances...
He goes through a lot of the interesting design details, including why REBCO is such a huge difference and will make their commercial reactor design possible:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4
- bmitc 3y agoThe only thing is that there are tons of problems beyond just having strong magnets. Using REBCO tape for the magnets indeed solves the problems of reactor size by letting the reactor be much, much smaller than say ITER. But it does not solve the other problems of reactor design and operation.
- nielsbot 3y agoI'm sure that's true.. but at least in this presentation they seem to have thought through most of them? I want to believe :)
- bmitc 3y agoThere are huge hurdles in maintaining reactors, even once you get them going in the first place. The fusion reaction causes many components of the reactor to decay and lose performance or fail.
- pfdietz 3y agoAnd makes the reactor so radioactive no one can get in to repair anything that breaks.