cccccttttt wrote: Have seen descriptions of the focus fusion device as the size of a coffee can.
Why has this size been chosen?
If the device were designed much smaller, which inputs do not scale down?
The Research Plan
https://focusfusion.org/index.php/site/article/research_plan/
mentions in general terms experimenting with the size of the electrodes to find the optimum size for focus fusion.
That will be one of the most time-consuming phases of the project.
Though scaling down might be good for the reactor vessel, scaling up might be better for the auxiliary equipment such as capacitors, switches, decelerators, etc. (Economies of Scale)
