ladajo wrote:It has run on thousands of cores, and will continue to.
It is a full 3d model, not 2d or a quadrant.
At least we are finally getting some interesting news.
Thanks for what you can tell us.
ladajo wrote:It has run on thousands of cores, and will continue to.
It is a full 3d model, not 2d or a quadrant.
Yeah, I found some slides in need of labels (because I don't remember all the details), so I'm cross-referencing to: https://iec.neep.wisc.edu/usjapan/16th_ ... lywell.pdfpaperburn1 wrote:I thought the PowerPoint they published in August was very revealing. [...] For those to you may have missed it.
https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default ... 5_PARK.pdf
I suspect that the larger size and lower well has to do with restricting brem losses, otherwise I'd think you'd want to run hotter and smaller.paperburn1 wrote:I have my suspicions.
The bremsstrahlung losses might be smaller by a factor. (very wishful thinking) but given most conventional thinking in a open cusp polywell they would be about 30 percent even cutting loses in half would be outstanding.
Sounds fun to us, waiting impatiently on the outside. But I suspect there are fundamental reasons why it would not be practical.choff wrote:I have a question, EMC2 probably still has WB8 in working order, what if they could get a plasma injector for it like they did with the little WB-X machine. Maybe team up with Focus Fusion or another company playing with Spheromaks, might be a good way to test scaling up on a low budget.