Quote from: Star One on 04/22/2018 08:25 pmQuote from: Elmar Moelzer on 04/22/2018 07:41 pmQuote from: Star One on 04/21/2018 11:43 pmIt seems the US is going to corner the market on this technology. As it looks like Europe has gone up a massively expensive blind alley.The Chinese are pushing ahead too, with lots of funding. But they are less innovative and tend to stick with Tokamaks, from what I have seen. Nevertheless, they might have a working reactor before ITER is even turned on for the first time.I am so depressed by what’s happened in Europe with Fusion research it feels like the whole thing has been mired in layers of red tape for years on end, that’s ended up costing huge amounts of time and money for very little result.European mega projects do seem to weigh heavily towards being job projects don't they?...
Quote from: Elmar Moelzer on 04/22/2018 07:41 pmQuote from: Star One on 04/21/2018 11:43 pmIt seems the US is going to corner the market on this technology. As it looks like Europe has gone up a massively expensive blind alley.The Chinese are pushing ahead too, with lots of funding. But they are less innovative and tend to stick with Tokamaks, from what I have seen. Nevertheless, they might have a working reactor before ITER is even turned on for the first time.I am so depressed by what’s happened in Europe with Fusion research it feels like the whole thing has been mired in layers of red tape for years on end, that’s ended up costing huge amounts of time and money for very little result.
Quote from: Star One on 04/21/2018 11:43 pmIt seems the US is going to corner the market on this technology. As it looks like Europe has gone up a massively expensive blind alley.The Chinese are pushing ahead too, with lots of funding. But they are less innovative and tend to stick with Tokamaks, from what I have seen. Nevertheless, they might have a working reactor before ITER is even turned on for the first time.
It seems the US is going to corner the market on this technology. As it looks like Europe has gone up a massively expensive blind alley.
Quote from: Crispy on 04/23/2018 08:21 amQuote from: john smith 19 on 04/23/2018 07:39 amJust to be clear the thing he refers to as "Eater" is actually ITER?The acronym was constructed to spell out the latin word "iter" which means procedure or course or "the way" so EE-ter not AYE-terOh. I always pronounced it iter as in "Iterate," which seemed appropriate, being the follow on from JET, the Joint European Torus.
Quote from: john smith 19 on 04/23/2018 07:39 amJust to be clear the thing he refers to as "Eater" is actually ITER?The acronym was constructed to spell out the latin word "iter" which means procedure or course or "the way" so EE-ter not AYE-ter
Just to be clear the thing he refers to as "Eater" is actually ITER?
Wendelstein 7-X achieves world record for fusion producthttps://m.phys.org/news/2018-06-wendelstein-x-world.htmlFor those interested here is the related paper in Nature.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0141-9
Optimal magnetic fields for suppressing tokamak instabilities discovered:https://www.pppl.gov/news/2018/09/discovered-optimal-magnetic-fields-suppressing-instabilities-tokamaks
The work, described in a new paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, deals with a type of structure in plasma that researchers call a “magnetic island.” Magnetic islands can cause complex plasma disruptions capable of shutting down fusion experiments and even damaging reactors.The researchers found that by bombarding plasma with radio-frequency waves while creating small fluctuations in its temperature, they could stabilize the material and prevent the dangerous magnetic islands from forming.
SCIENTISTS DISCOVERED A NEW WAY TO STABILIZE FUSION REACTIONSQuoteThe work, described in a new paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, deals with a type of structure in plasma that researchers call a “magnetic island.” Magnetic islands can cause complex plasma disruptions capable of shutting down fusion experiments and even damaging reactors.The researchers found that by bombarding plasma with radio-frequency waves while creating small fluctuations in its temperature, they could stabilize the material and prevent the dangerous magnetic islands from forming.
TAE Technologies (formerly Tri Alpha Energy) is aiming to achieve break even (with D+T) in 2 years from now.I hope they can make it happen. Once one team achieves break even, the stigma of "fusion will always be 30 years away" will be broken and fusion research will finally get adequate funding.
Quote from: Elmar Moelzer on 01/15/2019 11:59 pmTAE Technologies (formerly Tri Alpha Energy) is aiming to achieve break even (with D+T) in 2 years from now.I hope they can make it happen. Once one team achieves break even, the stigma of "fusion will always be 30 years away" will be broken and fusion research will finally get adequate funding.It will be remarkable if it works, not only to prove humans have the ability to generate energy from fusion reactions, but the size of their reactor is sufficiently small enough that it could fit in an existing launcher payload fairing. I think we could all imagine a lot of uses for such a small reactor in space.Unfortunately it using Boron-11, and not Dilithium crystals...
TAE Technologies (formerly Tri Alpha Energy) is aiming to achieve break even (with D+T) in 2 years from now.I hope they can make it happen. Once one team achieves break even, the stigma of "fusion will always be 30 years away" will be broken and fusion research will finally get adequate funding.https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2019/01/14/private-firm-will-bring-fusion-reactor-to-market-within-five-years-ceo-says/?fbclid=IwAR004y_B-Glv32WeR7im2VfZZrRHpBlDuJJwgHgyMgmeVgQm3btpx2tbqV0#4bd9e8ad1d4a
Hopefully so. I vaguely remember the same thing being said roughly that many years ago, about a slightly different crop of projects. EMC2 was one of those then, and today isn't even mentioned (?).