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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_beta_fusion_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_beta_fusion_reactor What do you think of this?
by nether 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_beta_fusion_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_beta_fusion_reactor
What do you think of this?
- mrterry 13y agoI haven't seen enough details to have a good opinion, but I'm skeptical (but would happily eat my hat if it works). We abandoned mirror fusion in the 80's because confinement is really hard if you have open field lines [1]. I do think high beta confinement concepts ([2], [3]) are very cool and could drive power plants small enough for power companies to be interested. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_Fusion_Test_Facility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_Fusion_Test_Facility [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheromak http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheromak [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_tokamak http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_tokamak