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Yeah, that's what I am afraid of. McConnel has refused to put bills to a vote in the past even if they would pass with bipartisan support.

Yeah, but Mitch McConnel blocks everything that comes from democrats out of principle and that bill had mostly democrat support. Also note that the fusion part was only an amendment to a much larger bill that contains a lot more other things that may be tougher to get past the GOP controlled senate....

Well, before we all get our hopes up. It needs to get past Mitch McConnel and the Senate first.

Looks like it passed:
"The Lamb-Trajan fusion amendment was included in the Energy Innovation Act HR4447, which passed about an hour ago."
Still has to go through the Senate, from what I understand.

Well, call your congress men!

Uhm NASA says it, so it must be more than just an early stage speculative experiment... NOT...
I have serious doubts about this to say the least. That said, if they could make it work, it would be great. I won't be holding my breath though.

This! This needs to happen! A lot of funding for fusion and not just Tokamaks! This would be wonderful!

https://www.fusionindustryassociation.o ... ion-energy

https://amendments-rules.house.gov/amen ... 424342.pdf

IIRC, I read that they are still many orders of magnitude away from Q~1. The whole lattice confinement idea is not really all that new either. I remember reading about it a decade or so ago. Color me skeptical.

It could mean a lot if things.
E.g. it could mean that the thing is just jerking back and forth.
It could also mean that you need to increase power as you accelerate.

The "resonant frequency" thing is what I find really off putting.

Once they start doing orbital test launches with Starship, there will probably be plenty of room to have small payloads like these launched for cheap, or even free...

Unfortunately even without a reactor, you're probably still going to need at least one nuclear certified person on board, and probably all the paperwork related to having a reactor, aside from the greenie opposition. And you need a source of strontium. Agree about the nuclear certified person. As I...

First that is way to low power. When driving a car easily needs 15-20 kW constant power and an EV like the Tesla Model-3 has 225 to 360 kW maximum Power. For that 225 kW power @ 20W/kg an 11.250 kg (!) battery would be needed. That car would be as heavy as a truck and have a very bad efficiency due...

Nickle has a density of 10 grams per cm3. Carbon 14 is 1 grams per cm3. So we get somewhere between 1 uW/g and 5uW/g power density. Pretty awful... Now, I have done some digging on my own and what I found to be a near perfect beta emitter in terms of half life (~29 years) and power density is Stront...

It's not carbon-14 alone. They plan to use a blend of different isotopes to achieve different power density targets. A table was provided in their investor pack, but that's been taken offline. Some have not only shorter half lives but also generate more energetic beta particles, so even if present ...