Reply To: General Fusion Inc

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zapkitty wrote:

I would advocate that someone on the LPP team or who knows what parameters can be tweaked should be looked to see if there is an alternative configuration that produces more fusion power per shot.

This seems to be a fairly common misconception… the power output of an FF unit is primarily determined by its pulse rate. Any increase in individual shot power can be approximated by increasing the pulse rate.

And the maximum pulse rate is governed by anode cooling. The thermal output of an FF unit operating at 200 Hz has been estimated at ~7 MW thermal… doable, but pushing things a bit.

Mhmm, well, I probably should have written “more fusion energy per shot” rather than “fusion power”.

Initiating each shot requires 100 KJ from the capacitors. If the conversion efficiency is low (say 40%) then you won’t get enough energy from each shot to recharge the capacitors for the next shot. And the shots/sec is irrelevant. A plan B designed around a lower conversion efficiency would require far more energy from the fusion reactions, something like 400 KJ per shot instead of the planned 66 KJ.