"Former fusion scientist on why we won't have fusion power by 2040"

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Re: "Former fusion scientist on why we won't have fusion power by 2040"

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RERT wrote:
Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:15 pm
...and it was very helpful!

Winding back to the question above, from the point of view of operating conditions Qsci goes from 1 to Infinity in a reasonably narrow range of nt. Qsci = 20 is very close to Q=Infinity in terms of operating conditions. So based on the paper my answer to my question would be no, there isn't a Qmax for a Tokamak. Further, it doesn't seem to me that the critique in the root post 'Q=20 is miles away' makes a lot of sense when Qsci explodes at a certain point.
I agree. As I said, the critique is just off the mark. It's like complaining that the Alan Shepard did not make it all the way to orbit and then concluding that going to orbit is impossible.

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