Major Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough

[ll74]

Looks like the approach being taken is very promising for future development.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60312633

The experiments produced 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds (11 megawatts of power).

This is more than double what was achieved in similar tests back in 1997.

It's not a massive energy output - only enough to boil about 60 kettles' worth of water. But the significance is that it validates design choices that have been made for an even bigger fusion reactor now being constructed in France

 

[oggbashan]

The Chinese have done something similar. The current problem is that the amount of energy needed to start that reaction is a thousand times greater than the output...

 

[Fuzzy1975]

The Chinese have done something similar. The current problem is that the amount of energy needed to start that reaction is a thousand times greater than the output...

Ogg, from what I heard, they are hoping to get a 1/5 ratio, of energy in to energy out.

Myself I can't see it, Stars contain their plasma filed via gravity, and we try to contain the plasma field with magnetism. I fail to see how we over come Newton on this, using magnetism.

 

[oggbashan]

Ogg, from what I heard, they are hoping to get a 1/5 ratio, of energy in to energy out.

Myself I can't see it, Stars contain their plasma filed via gravity, and we try to contain the plasma field with magnetism. I fail to see how we over come Newton on this, using magnetism.

1/5 would be good. 1000/1 is economic nonsense.

 

[pecksniff]

Fusion power is one of those things that seems always to be ten years away. Like strong artificial intelligence.