Reply To: Fusion Oil

[zapkitty]

Chuctanunda wrote: Great to hear about the triple plasmoid density achievement. I would like to know what is a realistic level of output above break even. What level of output will make this process economical? What level will make it competitive with conventional electricity production? Forgive me for being a little anxious, but I really want to see this work..

The folks at LPP use the term “scientific feasibility” instead of “break even”… a point at which it is demonstrated that the concept will work. As for the amount of joules per pulse they would expect to need to meet that criterion? 30,000 joules. It’s mentioned in the paper in the section about filament disruption:

If we can get yield up to our theoretical expectation of over 1 joule, our scaling calculations tell us that with higher current we can make it all the way to the 30,000 J that we need to demonstrate scientific feasibility.

… and the Sankey diagram on this page shows that they are going for about 66,000 joules for the proposed power generator.

Was this the sort of thing that you wanted to know?