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vansig wrote:

I thought the trend mentioned was toward smaller, yet hotter plasmoids?

My reasoning is based on having to put 100 kJ energy into the plasmoid each shot. It may be hotter, but if it’s smaller, then less fuel gets burned. (unless smaller implies denser also??)
But I realize that since the machine hasn’t yet been optimized for boron, it’s a bit early to speculate.

From an update on the LPP site it seems that they believe they have a handle on that particular issue now and they hope to increase plasmoid volume and fusion yields by 8-10 fold…

http://www.lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/index.php?option=com_lyftenbloggie&view=entry&year=2010&month=09&day=06&id=16:switch-problem-resolved&Itemid=90

… and the primary focus of that update is that they’ve gotten the switches to working on cue.

Now if they can deal with the x-ray conversion issues so handily… 😉