Tokamak is still on the go

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Thought that was all dead and gone, a blast from the past

Got a UK version too, (edit:being built in USA)

The subject matter seems to attract a lot of dreamers and hopefuls, I get the impression that the final solution will be to cheat nature, not mimic nature

Edited By Ady1 on 11/05/2021 08:36:41

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

Tens of million degrees, not 100s, I believe. Carp reporting, probably.

[J HancockParticipant @jhancock95746]

The basic problem remains , input 100's MW , output 100'sMW + 100W.

[DrDaveParticipant @drdave]

ITER is aiming for 150 million degrees. JET is probably similar (it is over 25 years since I worked there…). The point of ITER is to scale up the JET reactor to get closer to a power reactor, i.e. one that can run for months and produce significantly more power than it uses. I am not sure how making a smaller tokamak fits in with that progression.

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

It ticked me that the in joke about fusion is that it is still 30 years away.

Mike

[J HancockParticipant @jhancock95746]

Or Comrade Brezhnev's solution to landing on the Sun.

Go at night.

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