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JET passes break-even during preliminary testing
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:52 am
by JohnP
After achieving "first plasma" in February, JET engineers have managed to leapfrog competing fusion technologies in the long race to net gain.
"Preliminary tests indicate measured net power gain of 150% with predicted gains of up to 15x with minor modifications."
http://www.jet.efda.org/pages/news/2008 ... lasma.html
Re: JET passes break-even during preliminary testing
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:16 pm
by bcglorf
JohnP wrote:After achieving "first plasma" in February, JET engineers have managed to leapfrog competing fusion technologies in the long race to net gain.
"Preliminary tests indicate measured net power gain of 150% with predicted gains of up to 15x with minor modifications."
http://www.jet.efda.org/pages/news/2008 ... lasma.html
It's gonna be a long day
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:18 pm
by pstoller78
Indeed, sometimes I loathe April 1st.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:25 pm
by Zixinus
Ahem.
11th February, 2008
nothing in the article about break even
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:36 pm
by bcglorf
The article linked doesn't say anything about break even conditions. It doesn't say much more than first plasma achieved and a bit about the restart process, hence given the date of the post I've quit looking any further.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:33 pm
by JohnP
Sorry... I linked to an earlier article. This
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=de ... gle+Search
link will help.