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Article submitted 23/1 this year:

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1901/1901.08041.pdf

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08041

No renaissance this time! Back to the middle ages.. https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5045123 Previously published calculations predict that the “staged z-pinch” (SZP) can achieve 400 MJ of fusion yield on a Z-class machine. The SZP is touted to need no external preheat mechanism and no extern...

Fresh video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGnF3IGBXzQ

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-efficient-high-density-plasma-enabled-high.html Osaka University demonstrated that it was possible to efficiently heat plasma by focusing a relativistic electron beam (REB) accelerated by a high-intensity, short-pulse laser with the application of a magnetic field of 60...

Fresh publication:

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5037079

Seems there is no other option than wait and see if there is anything real in this. They are hiring a director: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/director-of-r-d-at-solidenergy-systems-687106908 Fresh article: https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/environment/first-semisolid-lithium-batteries-to-debut-t...

What makes you say that? From what I understand Musk has called for people to bring their new battery tech for review by Tesla. Why? A simple probability calculation: How many battery breakthroughs a week do we have? How many find their way into a working commercially available unit? And in this pa...

The paper has drawn criticism from other battery researchers, who tell Axios one aspect of the new battery cells — the relative dielectric constant — is higher than ever before recorded in any material known to science.

No bold guess that Elon won't get a cell...

Fresh article:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.05894.pdf

MIT claim they will build the SPARC

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/mit-commo ... sion-race/

https://www.zapenergyinc.com
Why that countdown?

Hmm, Shumlak's Zap Energy Inc now has an ominous countdown to September 1st 2018 on their website: https://www.zapenergyinc.com/ It could be a coincidence, but ARPA-E funding will run out by the end of August. So that could be the day they decided to present their latest results to the world in ord...

With larger dimensions comes less demanding physics. Perhabs they have opted for some kind of ideal compromise. The coil arrangement and the burn chamber in an FRC is vastly simpler than in a tokamak so one should not conclude that it will cost as much as a tokamak of the same size. The full article...

What matters is cost, not size. It is still microscopic compared to a wind power park of the same power.

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/aa88e0 A DT fusion reactor design in field-reversed configuration using normal conductive coils Assuming continued stability, favorable energy confinement time scaling, and an effective current drive and maintenance methods, a feasible DT fusion re...