The path to fusion - Literally!
(1) CommentsIt was a long, exciting first day for me meeting and getting to work with the LPPX team at the Focus Fusion-1 lab in New Jersey. Since I am volunteering on the project through the Focus Fusion Society, I will work doubly hard to share the adventure with all of you! And that begins with the path to fusion. No, not the Iter itinerary, but a much more modest stroll from South Bound Brook to the lab across the river in Middlesex.
This post is a bit light on tech, but my head is still spinning from all the lab stuff I learned today! We did fire 16 shots, so it was a busy introduction to my new best friend FoFu-1! We were making lightning in the lab, but the real thunder was rumbling up on the roof. The lab doesn’t have windows and we had a lot to do, though, so I didn’t even see today’s big storm - It whizzed above our heads like the neutrons to their time-of-flight detectors.
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We’ll also work to expand the diversity of fusion approaches covered here on the Focus Fusion Society site, since we want to encourage a variety of clean energy solutions - Watch for some spheromak stuff soon.
There are a lot of challenges ahead, but stay positive and the electrons will flow your way!
;-Derek
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For a more in depth discussion, start a thread in the forums.Great show, Derek! I’m posting it on the FB wall now.
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