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Fusion doesn’t need billions of euros – at least that is what venture capitalists claim

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  Fusion doesn’t need billions of euros – at least that is what venture capitalists claim Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 16:20 -0500
    Re: Fusion doesn’t need billions of euros – at least that is what venture capitalists claim jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-04-25 21:37 +0000

#573216 — Fusion doesn’t need billions of euros – at least that is what venture capitalists claim

Fusion doesn’t need billions of euros – at least that is what venture 
capitalists claim
> http://live.iop-pp01.agh.sleek.net/physicsworld/reader/#!edition/editions_nuclear-2016/article/page-12186


> Indeed, smaller and cheaper fusion plants are on the rise, but not in
> the public sphere. Tokamak Energy is one of several privately funded
> companies that have sprung up in recent years, each hoping to
> demonstrate that fusion does not need billions of euros and thousands
> of tonnes of metal. It was formed in 2009 by Mikhail Gryaznevich and
> Alan Sykes, who previously worked down the road from Abingdon at the
> Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) – home to the Joint European
> Torus (JET), which is currently the world’s largest and most powerful
> fusion tokamak.

> The principal workhorse of fusion research since its invention in the
> 1950s, the tokamak is a doughnut-shaped enclosure that confines a
> plasma – that is, the fusion reactants – in a magnetic field. As its
> name implies, Tokamak Energy is also developing tokamaks, but is
> focusing on those small enough to fit in rooms rather than aircraft
> hangers, and using more of a spherical (“cored apple”) shape rather
> than a doughnut design, like ITER.

> A smaller footprint means the magnetic confinement is more important
> than ever, and for this reason Tokamak Energy is employing the latest
> high-temperature superconductors for its magnets. ITER, in contrast,
> is destined to rely on conventional superconducting magnets. Tokamak
> Energy’s current model, the 50 cm-wide ST25 HTC, ran its
> high-temperature superconducting magnets for 29 hours non-stop in
> July last year – a world first, according to Kingham.



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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fusion doesnt need billions of euros at least that is what venture 
> capitalists claim

Yes sir, any day now...


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