which could get much better driver efficiency, shot rates, etc. It could possibly function with direct drive and have cheaper targets too. The economics might work for a full-scale power plant but the high energy-per-particle requirement means you need a big machine to do any experiments at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_ion_fusion
which could get much better driver efficiency, shot rates, etc. It could possibly function with direct drive and have cheaper targets too. The economics might work for a full-scale power plant but the high energy-per-particle requirement means you need a big machine to do any experiments at all.