Discovered: Optimal magnetic fields for suppressing instabilities in tokamaks

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[Joe Brower]

"Well at least they haven't turned it into a giant Muslim outreach program."

Har! Hey -- be careful. Don't give 'em any ideas... !

[WMarshal]

“Then the next question is: Is optimal good enough?”

The next question from the deviants who would rule is will be “ Don’t assume my gender but, when will it be small enough to fit in a vibrator?”

[SunkenCiv]

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Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking by Charles Seife

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[Boogieman]

They predicted it, and then confirmed the predictions using an actual fusion reactor.

[Boogieman]

Yeah, magnetic induction is one of the methods people have been trying to use for direct energy conversion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion

[mabarker1]

It's ELECTRONIC TOMAHAWKS😀

[Ozark Tom]

Dr. Park was involved with analysis of data from Bussard’s final Polywell fusion test device several years ago. Perhaps it bore fruit in a fashion.

[Ozark Tom]

If uranium is made from thorium it certainly will go boom, if rapidly assembled in sufficient quantity.

[Ozark Tom]

Bussard's Should Google Go Nuclear? speech referred to his tenure as Assistant Director AEC, as procuring fusion research funding as a program to keep physicists employed.

[Ozark Tom]

Americium?

[DiogenesLamp]

Dr. Park was involved with analysis of data from Bussard’s final Polywell fusion test device several years ago. Perhaps it bore fruit in a fashion.

I saw the name "Park", and I was wondering if it was the same Dr. Park that worked on the polywell project. It is my understanding that "Park" is a common name in Korea, like "Smith" is here.

I keep up with the polywell news because it looks like one of the most comprehensible designs out there.

[Andy from Chapel Hill]

I did not know they actually did that in 1955.

[dhs12345]

Lol.

[dhs12345]

My friend/boss just had his leg amputated due to cancer. This was after radiation and the knee joint was removed 15 months ago.

Detection is the key and the doctors are getting better at that. But a cure? Who knows when it will exist.

But the treatment seems to be the same as 50 years ago — radiation, chemo, or cut out the cancerous part.

[dhs12345]

I think that it is due to the fact that the standard power production infrastructure is based on AC power which is derived from a spinning generator at a rotation speed that produces 60Hz or 50Hz that can be distributed at a very high voltage and stepped down to 120VAC through transformers. Good ol’ Nikola Tesla's design. :)

Suspect that the plasma is in a semi-predictable flow but not close to 60Hz. Whatever plasma flows at. Still, that flow can induce a current that can be utilized and regulated via some kind of inverter.

[dhs12345]

Ya. Figured that they had thought of this. Pretty obvious.

This solution might be more suited for space travel than power production. You have to figure out how to plug it into our power grid. Our power grid is designed around alternating current and transformers that are tuned to 60Hz.

How do you get clean 120VAC 60Hz power at the load from a plasma based fusion reactor. Suspect that the noise produced is pretty high too. Would be interesting to see a spectral distribution of the plasma.