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Friday, July 4, 2025

New fusion research facility

 Pacific Fusion proposed Livermore facility:


https://www.livermorevine.com/livermore/2025/06/30/livermore-eyed-for-new-fusion-research-facility/

Based largely on proposed next generation Sandia pulsed power machine that NNSA passed on after failed design reviews. Unclear why investors think a machine that can fire once a day can put power on the grid.
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Requires hundreds of thousand of capacitors and gas switches. These typically last about 20,000 shots. Physically impossible to operate at one Hz as the machine would only last a few hours. Really old technology that was basically invented by the Russians in the 1990.

7/04/2025 7:22 PM

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