The Focus Fusion Society Forums Dense Plasma Focus (DPF) Science and Applications Maximum size of DPF device? Reply To: A Big Prick in the Balloon of the Big Bang

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Henning
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Polywell’s minimum power output is 100MWe. That’s because of its scaling law of size^5.

I’m not quite sure about FF’s limits itself, because DPFs scale linearly in respect to their size. So theoretically anything between beer-bottle-sized (for the whole device, but adding the cooling system) and big-factory-sized should be possible in maybe 30 years — if it’s possible at all.