The Wendelstein 7-X concept proves its efficiency

Re:The Wendelstein 7-X concept proves its efficiency by fanf2 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @07:06PM (#28215810)

I don’t know if stellarators have a different plan, but in a production tokamak, it’s a combination of:

- deuterium-tritium fusion, which produces lots of high-energy neutrons

- the neutrons help to keep the plasma hot, but being neutral, they escape the magnetic bottle; there is a lithium blanket around the reactor to catch them

- the neutrons that hit the lithium produce tritium for the reactor, and steam for the turbines

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Re:The Wendelstein 7-X concept proves its efficiency by dnautics on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @11:25PM (#28217456)

Wasn't there a fusion project where the end product was a charged particle so energy could be extracted from currents generated by changes in the magnetic field as they slowed down?

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Re:The Wendelstein 7-X concept proves its efficiency by heimdall on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @12:17AM (#28217728)

Here's one such promising project: https://lppfusion.com/technology/fusion-energy-generator/

"Dense Plasma Focus device with aneutronic hydrogen-boron (pB11) fuel"

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