Utopia Talk / Politics / Cold Fusion!

murder Member	Mon Oct 04 07:36:26 I'm sorry, I meant cold water on fusion. ;o) At least anytime soon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4W1g-6JiY Feel free to skip over the ad that runs from ~ :30 to ~ 1:30. Unless you choose to skip the whole thing in which case fuck you!
Seb Member	Mon Oct 04 11:12:53 Eh, she's being as sensationalist at they are. She's made a name for herself being a scourge of big science. Fusion experiments are cobbled together out of old parts. Nobody cares where you are using a hideously inefficient third generation neutral beam injector in an experiment to figure out the best way to confine plasma. Unless you want each experiment built from scratch using top rated technology for every component, 90% of the time Q plasma is what is relevant. Then you can look at the state of the art in particle beams, lasers and cyclotrons to work out what that translates to in a hypothetical power plant.
Seb Member	Mon Oct 04 11:16:23 Jet having a q_total of 0.01 back then is only relevant to the efficiencies of its heating systems back then. If you rebuilt an exact replica of jet using modern beams, modern cooling systems, superconducting magnets - you could get the q_plasma of .67 and have a very different q_total. Say 0.1. Thats why q_plasma is used.
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