The agenda of the Annual meeting of Fusion Power Associates and most of the slides have been published. AgendaSlides
EMC2 and General Fusion attended, but the GF presentation is not (yet?) available. Polywell Fusion Electrostatic Fusion in a Magnetic Cusp - Jaeyoung Park, EMC2
There are nice pictures of the Polywells built by EMC2 in the talk The future goals are stated as:
Next Phase: Last Part of Proof-of-Principle
- Sustained high β operation (~ 5 ms)
- Demonstration of ion heating (>10 kV) by e-beam injection
- Verify Grad’s cusp scaling
3 year, $25-30M program to complete proof-of-principle
Success will be defined by 1) high energy electron confinement within a factor of 10
from Grad’s conjecture and 2) minimum 30% ion heating efficiency via e-beam.
