Fusion News, October 18, 2023
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- Jeff Peachman, a graduate student at the University of Washington, shares exciting updates on recent developments in fusion energy. Links to all the stories mentioned are included below.
1. Laser-fusion experiment squeezes out even more energy: www.science.org/content/artic....
2. Fueling the Future of Fusion Energy: www.newswise.com/doescience/f...
3. Pivotal Discovery Signals a Huge Leap Forward in Fusion Energy Reactor Progress: scitechdaily.com/pivotal-disc...
4. JET experiments to test electronics in fusion environments: www.gov.uk/government/news/je...
Bonuses:
1. SHINE raises $70M in state’s largest deal of the year so far: www.wisbusiness.com/2023/shin...
2. Tokamak Energy's upgrades bring us closer to clean energy: interestingengineering.com/in...
3. 29th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2023): www.iaea.org/events/fec2023
4. Preface to the Special Issue: The Emergence of Private Fusion Enterprises: link.springer.com/article/10.....
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My apologies for the audio! I swear I don't normally sound like this. But thank you for the kind comments!
See you in London.
Thx Jeff ❤
Thank you for the update Jeff!
It's such a joy to be able to hear about such important progress on the bleeding edge of physics and engineering. Thank you for keeping us informed!
I really like the cadence of how you speak.
Just Peachy! Thanks for recording and making such a great breakdown in the concepts for us fission people, I have no formal education in plasmas, yet!
Jeff, you are really easy to listen to and you get the info across really well - keep it up!
I'm an engineer, getting 1.9MJ instead of 1MJ is slightly more interesting than the earlier 1.3 ratio last year, but I'm looking at the many MW of power that goes into the entire facility 24/365. By my math the output/input ratio is more like 1 to billions and will never be atleast 10 fold overall to be economic. They will need 1000s of tiny incremental scientific improvements to make that happen, so it is centuries of work, long after it even matters anymore.
Now using Lithium deuteride pellets shooting into the tokamak plasma looks like it would solve the tritium fuel problem. The fast neutrons that will be released will hit the chamber walls but they won't have to breed tritium or use huge amounts of lithium berylium but it will still iradiate the vessel. The lithium deuteride will still consume lots of lithium rather than tritium or helium 3.
Hang on, JET is supposed to be closed down in the UK news cycle? And then be replaced by an actual fusion power plant in Notinghamshire that admits it may not work for a $25B just so as to recycle a former coal burning power plant. The generators that were used by the coal plant have no value sitting there, they could be used by a fission plant today. Irony is that the coal was already radioactive and is likely still in the environment there.
Meanwhile Molten Salt Reactors using boring fission at 1000K look millions of times more plausible than fusion.
Great channel, another cool video thanks! Honoured to see an expert talking about what is happening with authority.
There's so much I'd like to know, but when using lithium-deuteride where would the lithium go or would it go into tritium production?
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I would like to hear your thoughts on 2 private fusion companies, Zap Energy (using z-pinch) and LPP Fusion (using DPF). Their approaches seem exotic and I would like to know more about their approaches and where they stand against other approaches.
I used to be a fan of the LPP fusion tiny reactor .But Dr Lerner who is quite elderly (76) is rather busy these days fighting the astrophysics community again in defeating current cosmology, the Big Bang Never Happened. With that approach he is certain to appeal to big investers needed to bring his idea to fruition. LPP runs on a shoestring of a few $M and tiny staff and is generally ignored. You can raise money for LPP by buying his books on the Big Bang Never Happened, buy lots of copies.
How could a simple person contribute to fusion Energy devepment?
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