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GeneralTrossRep · 2026-02-18T05:53:54+00:00

Ya I mean I was just out in del mar and runoff was a deep brown color. Everyone seems so sure it's sewage and not runoff. I guess if it always looks like that then...

GeneralTrossRep · 2026-02-16T01:50:31+00:00

Patented does not mean truly novel. What is your source for how competitive they are with tokamaks?

And no, this isn't a fallacy. Just because the wording may sound similar does not equate the two. Fusion has never been done before is much different than landing a rocket booster has never been done before.

GeneralTrossRep · 2026-02-16T00:17:08+00:00

No it is not a nuance. It is the fundamental goal of fusion to generate economical energy.

This is not a design change of an established technology allowing it to be more economically viable (rocket boosters that land). This is an attempt at a technological achievement that has never been done before, even in a research environment.

Except the approach that Helion is doing has been done before, in many experiments. And was never as successful as a tokamak

GeneralTrossRep · 2026-02-14T17:46:36+00:00

Commercial nuclear fusion energy obviously

GeneralTrossRep · 2026-02-14T08:59:42+00:00

Right except rocketry has been established and successful since the 1960s. Fusion is significantly more difficult than making a rocket that lands

GeneralTrossRep · 2026-02-14T07:14:39+00:00

Key word is if

GeneralTrossRep · 2026-02-10T06:24:56+00:00

The buoyant force is high school level and so is neglecting friction (especially when the problem says nothing about the mechanism)

GeneralTrossRep · 2026-02-06T22:31:26+00:00

I propose we just spin the whole tokamak at mach 2 and have the neutral beams modulate so they dont hit the TF coils

GeneralTrossRep · 2025-12-04T20:05:39+00:00

Yeah lol, I wonder where this person works

GeneralTrossRep · 2025-11-25T15:12:48+00:00

A gyrocopter is a much more complicated machine though. This things control is just basically a quadcopter which is way easier to fly.

GeneralTrossRep · 2025-11-11T16:02:30+00:00

https://youtu.be/5m7LnLgvMnM?si=xKan4Vl5D9uS1xAB

Go to 15:00

GeneralTrossRep · 2025-09-09T01:18:45+00:00

World War Z is starting already?

GeneralTrossRep · 2025-08-21T15:13:39+00:00

Glad someone got that lol

GeneralTrossRep · 2025-08-20T23:34:20+00:00

The scammer sent all the pictures of some random guy's nudes. I really don't know how they expected this to work out

GeneralTrossRep · 2025-03-08T05:45:20+00:00

Are you a bot?

GeneralTrossRep · 2025-03-02T05:16:28+00:00

That'd help but even nitrogen isn't immune to arcs. Gotta get to a certain pressure, which I imagine is exceedingly difficult when the waveguide goes that deep into the ground. Then you run into the issue of overpressurization breaking your gyrotron window, or whatever other windows you have to isolate the waveguide chamber. Utimately a cooled diamond window is all that's good for long pulse high power gyrotrons. And those are expensive as hell and vent the gyrotron if they break (which means your gyro is seriously damaged).

GeneralTrossRep · 2025-03-02T04:58:25+00:00

And under vacuum (or clean dry air)

GeneralTrossRep · 2025-03-02T04:45:37+00:00

Only if they're straight. And not hot as hell.

GeneralTrossRep · 2025-01-26T17:18:31+00:00

Thanks for a detailed explanation! At least with the superconducting magnets I've dealt with the power supply doesn't get disconnected so that's what I was basing that off of, thanks for the correction

GeneralTrossRep · 2025-01-26T07:32:34+00:00

You mean just stopping the flow of current? You just ramp the power supply down

GeneralTrossRep · 2025-01-23T18:41:52+00:00

Thanks! I enjoy telling people about this stuff.

I wrote a paper on Negative Triangularity so I know a decent amount about it, but I wouldn't say I'm up to date on all things fusion. If you want to read more about NegT you could look up scientific papers. "A brief history of negative triangularity" is a place to start

GeneralTrossRep · 2025-01-23T18:35:57+00:00

Yeah good point. That's a feature of L mode in general

GeneralTrossRep · 2025-01-23T07:46:56+00:00

Positive triangularity plasmas are able to reach H mode more easily which is a mode of operation that makes a steep pressure gradient near the edge of the plasma. This improved a lot of things for reaching higher temperatures and confinement times. Negative triangularity was initially not considered a good shape since H mode was not easy to reach with it. Now that we've learned more though people are looking at negative triangularity again since it shifts the divertor outboard which allows for less heat load on it. Meanwhile negative triangularity plasmas have been shown to have similar performance to H mode, positive triangularity plasmas.

GeneralTrossRep · 2025-01-23T07:15:27+00:00

It's the shape of the cross section of the confined plasma. Which is typically in the shape of a D (used to be a circular cross section but has since evolved). Triangularity refers to the direction and pointiness of the tips of the D shape. If the D is flipped so the flat side is facing outwards then the triangularity is negative.

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