Physics is stuck

Re:Physics is stuck by willis936 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @11:56PM (#24458187)

If you have the chance, ask her what a better vision of the use of funding would be. Keep in mind that the physics goals are to test high neutron flux divertors, tokamak scaling laws, and burning plasma regime stability.

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Re:Physics is stuck by pantalaimon on Sunday September 13, 2020 @06:06AM (#24459768)

AFAIK you can’t operate a tokamak continuously, only pulsed.

A stellarator like Wendelstein 7-X looks like a much more promising design.

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Re:Physics is stuck by willis936 on Sunday September 13, 2020 @07:49AM (#24460214)

I know. I work at the first MHD optimized stellarator :)

That doesn’t mean backing out of ITER 15 years ago would have been a good idea. It would be an even worse idea to back out of it now.

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Re:Physics is stuck by pfdietz on Sunday September 13, 2020 @03:30PM (#24463282)

Stellarators also have ruinously low volumetric power density, so they're not any less economically dead than tokamaks.

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Re:Physics is stuck by mikhailfranco on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:18AM (#24466701)

So ITER is an iterator design :)

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