“Things Aren’t Looking Good For Nuclear Fusion”
“…Basically it’s a way to circumvent proof of commercial viability…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVw5TKUil3o
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Looks like well polished press releases to get investors “ginned up” for a pump and dump.
And how exactly, does NIF differ, from a DOE/NNSA pump and dump to USA taxpayers? Maybe ask Ed?
Commonwealth is designing only for pulsed operation. In the past the power companies have said this does not work. Commonwealth hopes to get around this by a large energy storage facility, not batteries, to produce electricity when the fusion is down. Another detail to be added to magnetic confinement. The pulsed operation is caused not just by the current decay in tokamaks but in addition by disruptions from thermal quenches in the plasma and quenches of the superconducting magnetics.
Energy storage is trivial compared to generating fusion. This is merely misdirection designed to imply fusion is a done deal.
In thinking about it I am very inclined to agree that energy storage is not a solution for pulsed operation. Another point. The fusion people are always talking about magnetic confinement but this is always about charged particles. In a fully operating reactor the charge neutral energetic neutrons and xrays are not confined. The total energy production of the reactor is carried by the neutrals and all hits the first wall. As demonstrated by laser drive inertial fusion, this will cause ablation of the first wall.
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