That’s awesome, do you have any take on helion’s approach to cracking fusion?
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StormNinjaPenguin@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
TLDR: tokamak type reactor, produced a lot of energy (69 megajujes - nice!) but still net negative.
franklin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
StormNinjaPenguin@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Not like I’m an expert on the topic lol. But I happened to watch a Nebula video series on Helion’s approach from Real Engineering and I really hope they manage to crack the efficiency barrier. The idea of truck container sized reactor that makes it’s own fuel and produces energy directly from electromagnetic impulses (not from heat via turbines) is almost too good to be true.
franklin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Of course! Was just nerding out. It does seem like they have a lot of barriers to a net positive reactor but it definitely seems like one possible way we could do it!
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
How much is a megajuje to a megajoule? /s
felbane@lemmy.world 10 months ago
1.21, I think. You’d have to ask Doc Brown.
joel_feila@lemmy.world 10 months ago
69 megajoules is about half a gallon of gasoline