Reply To: Focus fusion and transportation

[Brian H]

Axil wrote: The Front Lens
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Development Funding

This type “out-of-the-box” system is desirable for development by DARPA since it involves possible improvement to existing and future fusion concepts and weapons.

That’s a pretty pricey medium-term development sequence, nevertheless. The cost of a such a finished GW reactor would probably be in the range of $200M, plus lotsa admin and infrastructure allocated costs.

I suggest that with much less time and investment the existing FF model would benefit from engineering refinement to maximize electrode cooling tech so that it could be cranked up to 25MW/unit. 40 such units would thus put out 1 GW, and would cost on the order of $10-15M. That’s ~1.25¢/W. No hard X-ray lensing required, handy though that tech would be for X-Scan (see LLP site).