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How can they build something commercial/grid-scale when not a single research-level reactor truly generates net energy out, and none can do it anywhere near con
by andriesm 2y ago
How can they build something commercial/grid-scale when not a single research-level reactor truly generates net energy out, and none can do it anywhere near continously enough to be of any practical use?
This news is either based on misleading the public, or I am about to be updated with where Fusion is?
- cladopa 2y agoBecause they are more or less certain (because of their magnets) they will get the necessary temperatures for ignition, giving more energy that it consumes. If they get ignitions, all the other problems will be solved very fast, because there will be an enormous rush from investors wanting to invest billions.
- nradov 2y agoI hope they succeed, but throwing more money at problems like this doesn't necessarily accelerate progress. There is still basic research needed. Building large, high-precision devices can't be rushed.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> throwing more money at problems like this doesn't necessarily accelerate progress "Necessarily" being your Zeno's Arrow. Necessary to what threshold? I can literally argue against anything to an arbitrary level of necessity. (Breathing doesn't necessarily ensure living.)
- Gud 2y agoAlso, is living really necessary?
- Gud 2y agoThey are doing the “basic research” and are actually world leading nuclear fusion engineers… https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4&pp=ygUrYnJlYWt0aHJvdWdoIGluIG51Y2xlYXIgZnVzaW9uIGRlbm5pcyB3aHl0ZQ%3D%3D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4&pp=ygUrYnJlYWt0aHJ...
- Gud 2y agoI think you are about to be updated. Watch this clip with Prof. Whyte from 8 years ago. It’s the team behind CFS(then still at MIT). Highly interesting. He will explain exactly what they will do(now doing), how they will do it, and why they will do it they way they are doing it. Please note that they are pretty much on target since. I have been following CFS closely. Essentially the breakthrough has been the ability to manufacture more powerful magnets. CFS makes the most powerful magnets in the world. That was always the main issue, how to contain the plasma. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4&pp=ygUrYnJlYWt0aHJvdWdoIGluIG51Y2xlYXIgZnVzaW9uIGRlbm5pcyB3aHl0ZQ%3D%3D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4&pp=ygUrYnJlYWt0aHJ...
- belter 2y agohttps://news.newenergytimes.net/2021/11/21/commonwealth-fusion-cons-nature-magazine-journalist/ https://news.newenergytimes.net/2021/11/21/commonwealth-fusi...
- Gud 2y agoSorry, what are you responding to?
- belter 2y ago"Scientists working on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Commonwealth Fusion Systems collaboration have misled members of the science news media again. The latest casualty is Philip Ball, an experienced U.K. science reporter. In a Nov. 17, 2021, news story, Ball wrote that scientists working with the MIT/CFS collaboration are planning to deliver the “first fusion machine expected to generate more energy than it uses” in 2025. Actually, the MIT/CFS SPARC reactor is designed only to produce a fusion plasma that produces power at a higher rate than it consumes power. That measurement does not account for the input power required to operate the reactor. It’s the same trick that fusion promoters used to sell the idea of ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor."
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