Re: New fusion power system test creates 300,000 degrees C plasma

On 30/11/2024 12:00 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:

A nuclear fusion startup just reached a milestone
in its bid to commercialize unlimited clean energy :
  https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/29/climate/nuclear-fusion-openstar/index.html
 ITER inside out :-)

You really can't read, can you. It's got its plasma to 300,000 degrees K, and ITER have got theirs to 150,000,000 degrees K, about 500 times hotter. It maybe some kind of milestone for OpenStar, but they've got lot of milestones to go before they'll have a product that they can sell.
And they are still trying to fuse hydrogen or deuterium, which produces a lot of neutrons.
https://hb11.energy/
is trying to fuse hydrogen and boron, which doesn't produce neutrons - if the machine ever works it will last a whole lot longer than hydrogen fusion machines, which will be damaged by the stray neutrons they produce, if they ever work.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney