benf wrote:

66 kJ ? Not even a power figure here? And all for just a “few million amps”!!? You’re killing me over here.

Maybe people don’t want the expensive, behemoth steam driven turbine AC generators anymore after the Fukushima experience and the problems with our grid. So we see the advent of the SMR, the small modular reactor. Unfortunately at this point the trend for those is going to be steam driven turbine AC fission technology.

For a large number of people even a hundred watts is a very big deal. (They aren’t living in ivory towers).

Maybe there is an issue of pressure in any size or form of fusion we could dream up. Great if you have it figured out! Bring the idea to the people in a way that’s
useful to them soon. In the meantime other approaches will have to be tested as well, that’s just reality.

You never know, 5MW could also light up a lot of folks lives.

“For a large number of people even a hundred watts is a big deal”
I think it does not follow that a large-scale production will help others any less than a small one … just because it’s “big”. The question is which approach is likely to actually solve the problem, globally, for everyone?
I hope you’re right that it can be done “small”, cheaply and easily. That would be great. It would be a liberating thing if everyone could just own their own personal fusion reactor and be energy free. That is the ideal scenario. Given enough steps, and if we’re here long enough to do it, I think it will happen.