/sci/ - Science & Math

Today I will remind them of MIT/CFS/SPARC, Kitty Hawk of Fusion.

Want to jump from Less-Then Type 1 to Type 2 civilization in a single century?

>Group of professors and students at MIT design a plus-gain fusion tokamac in their spare time.
>Using High Temperature Superconductors (HTS), the main compression magnets do not require -200 degree coolant to work, and at higher magnetic field strength. Also cheaper and smaller then conventional superconductors.
>Additive-manufactured Inconel blanket contains liquid Lithium, both as a coolant and as a breeder for Tritium (makes its own fuel on site, without outside nuclear fission reactors).
>HTS can bend and fold, allowing the reactor to come apart without destruction for repairs and upkeep (unfolds like a flower, pull out blanket, put in fresh one).
>Original design for Advanced Robust Compact (ARC) reactor showed it could easily give 100x energy gain, but plans are now to build Soon-as-Possible (SPARC) demo unit, small enough to fit in a college lab but still produce 10x gain in single shots
>Already has full funding from the US gov, as well as Bil Gates, even Italian energy giant Eni added $50m.

Demo compression rings to be tested 2019, SPARC online by 2030, ARC plants by 2050. Combine with Thermal Transfer (Malta), Dry Electrode/UltraCap (Tesla), and Solid State batteries, we will have the power to teraform the entire planet a thousand times over. Space colonization and cylinder swarms a centery to follow. GGEZ.

http://www.psfc.mit.edu/sparc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_fusion_reactor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efOlmF3wjJE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk