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Fusion Foolery (ucsd.edu)
4 points by cratermoon on Aug 16, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


If they were serious about energy from inertial confinement fusion they’d pursue

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.




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