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Rusakov

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Registered: 2012-12-19

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A hot fusion reactor

I take it many of the people here are skeptical of the low energy nuclear reaction based designs (which may or may not work).

Here's a promising piece of news about conventional fusion.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/02/new-go … kheed.html

Much smaller than tokamak reactors and a projected commercialization date of 2023.

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Void

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Registered: 2011-12-29

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Re: A hot fusion reactor

I'm not against anything that works.  The next unexpected breatkthrough is what will likely get us to a new chance, and I think we can agree that we want that.  Expected breakthroughs, they typically just lead to more chains.

The status quo is death.  I am also skeptical of the cold fusion thread I started, more so than this one, but someday someone is going to find a way, and it won't be a conventional dogma scheme.  1 in 1000 might work, but still, it is important to keep trying.

Last edited by Void (2013-02-21 00:47:13)

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tahanson43206

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Registered: 2018-04-27

Posts: 19,365

Re: A hot fusion reactor

For SpaceNut ... a search for topics containing the word "fusion" yielded a number of results ... this seemed the best fit for the article at the link below:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/uk-fusion-ex … 43422.html

The "new to me" feature of this UK project is an attempt to reduce the size of the "hole" in the doughnut to the smallest possible size.

The resulting plasma region is reported to be nearly spherical.

A detail from the article was the heat of the plasma, which was said to need to be 10 times hotter than the Sun.  I'm not sure if the researcher quoted was thinking of the surface of the Sun, or some other region there.

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