New design could finally help to bring fusion power closer to reality

Re:New design could finally help to bring fusion power close... by iaw on Monday August 10, 2015 @06:48PM (#10037984)

I can honestly say I'd never heard of that before you posted your link. I don't know enough to form a valid opinion here.

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Re:New design could finally help to bring fusion power close... by derwildemomo on Monday August 10, 2015 @07:22PM (#10038132)

"I don't know enough to form a valid opinion here.".

Beautiful. This is pretty much the last thing I ever expected to read on the interweb.

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Re:New design could finally help to bring fusion power close... by ZenoArrow on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @09:10AM (#10040703)

Thank you for your honesty.

I'm not an expert in this field either, but I have been following the development of the Focus Fusion reactor being developed by Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, which is where I was introduced to the concept of aneutronic fusion. This video is a fairly decent introduction to their approach (note that the plan is to use the standard deuterium fuel first as it's cheaper and easier to work with, but the design can potentially support an aneutronic fuel such as pB11 in the future):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4w_dzSvVaM

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