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>>14789503
>you know what plasma does with increasing field strength? It gets squirrelly. Wanna know why we have had all those "fusion in 20 years" statements decades and decades ago? It's because back then everyone was new to plasma physics and was drawing straight trend lines between small experiments and future larger experiments, but it turns out that plasma dynamics do not scale like that.

Yeah I'm excited for this too but have to acknowledge this, even they acknowledge it

Maybe plasma instabilities will be smaller/less extreme to control due to overall compact size of the reactor