Top products from r/fusion
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2. Fusion: Science, Politics, and the Invention of a New Energy Source (MIT Press)
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Show Reddit reviews3. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics)
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> Right now ALL fusion work is in a research phase, trying to determine which approach will get to the basic goal of producing more fusion energy out of the device than is put in
Many university campuses (the serious ones anyway) doing fusion research are moving towards full life-cycle plant research. The fusion and energy gain is a given - it's a financial/engineering challenge, as opposed to speculation about how reactors will behave, with reproducible and reproduced results fitting the model - the research is how to we get usable energy out, how do we build reactors to be maintainable, what do we do with reactors at end of their lives.
Certainly it's true that ITER doesn't get us where we need in a reasonable timescale, that doesn't negate the value of tokamaks, nor the validity of the argument that they're probably the best route to commercial fusion power generation.
> This is all based on peer-reviewed publications
Peer reviewed publications funded by LPP's own shareholders? Written by LPP's own team?. This is not reassuring in any way. Who is reproducing LPP's results independently?
There are many red flags in this project but intentionally underfunding a project you know needs more money specially to avoid the regulatory regime that is there to protect investors is probably the most egregious.
I wish LPP every luck, but at the same time I wouldn't invest and nor would I suggest anybody else does. There's plenty of commercial funding for small fusion research projects floating around, it's actually in somewhat of a bubble right now, asking ordinary people to fund the research with no protection whatsoever is... alarming.
>Then we have FRCs, the Sheared Flow Stabilized Z- Pinch and various other designs that have emerged in recent years
Both of these emerged in 1964, on the same machine, ZETA.
For the love of dog, GO BUY BROMBERG'S BOOK. Here, here's the link on amazon.
Sounds like a new version of David Hahn - The Radioactive Boy Scout
A more affordable paperback is forthcoming https://twitter.com/JB_Fusion/status/1094581684543111168
Also eBook here