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

>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 cylender 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

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>Group of professors and students at MIT

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>> No.10411148

>>10411128
Dead end bullshit only for grant pulling.

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>> No.10411171

>tfw have the ability to make a net gain fusion reactor that could fit in a car
>tfw health problems and couldn't finish grad school
You're all thinking about this the wrong way. Magnetic containment vessels are the worst thing that ever happened to fusion.

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>>10411157
Iter was designed with the "smallest magnets available" at the time. "We will build the reactor around that size restraint". That restraint being fuckoffanddie massive.

20 years later, we have magnets that are cheaper, smaller, more powerful with lower temperature superconductivity, with other bonus properties (flexibility exc). "This is no longer a physics problem, this is an ENGINEERING problem. Here is our 'wing'".

>"Hey you know we have the math here saying this will work well withing spec"
>"Oh we got the funding we need to build demo loops and produce educational lectures/talks/podcasts/presentations/demonstrations, thanks!"

nevergonnawork.jpg has hurt itself in its confusion.

>> No.10411219

>>10411207
the fact that you wrote "lower temperature superconductivity" makes it clear you probably know jack shit. anyhow, the successor to ITER, DEMO, is already in planning phases and probably will use the newest magnets (that are available when they publish their TDR). and ITER is going to provide tons of good data and experience on how to make DEMO work

there is always a problem in big science of "what will the technology be in 10 years? should we delay the project based on that?" so that's life. ITER, DEMO, etc. needed to go ahead because you can't wait forever gambling on unknown unknowns. on the other hand, SPARC will never happen, just like so many other fantasy fusion ideas

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PS i also don't approve of OP's pic of luftwaffe nuking Queens. bunch of nazis on here today but i thought SPARC anon wasn't that dumb -- guess i was wrong

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>>10411240
I could not find my cute/lewd earth-chans