Reply To: FOCUS FUSION REACTOR

[Aeronaut]

The switches have to carry a huge amount of power and current, fortunately for only a millionth of a second every thousandth of a second in ballpark figures. This low duty cycle helps a great deal with cooling and power lost as heat, but is almost science fiction when you shop for ways to switch that much power that fast and precisely without paying too much in inductance.

My first thought is always use a bank of stud-mounted SCR silicon controlled rectifiers, which I’m sure would cost less money, at the cost of way too much inductance.

My proposed solution is to turn the physics, math, and engineering departments of around 2,500+ universities loose on switch technology, capacitor technology, and the onion’s production systems. Somewhere in that maelstrom is at least one pocket of people who will find a way.

I’d also bet on that group to solve several of the key production engineering challenges. This is how we speed up time to market, or, in the worst case, make sure the engineering phase takes no more than 3 years.