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mchargue
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Henning wrote: DPFs scale linearly with size, as opposed to Polywell or tokomaks, which get better the bigger they get.

How are these two descriptions different?

Also, doesn’t the Polywell energy output scale as the square of the radius? (a function of ‘falling’ from a greater distance)

As for the tokomacs, from what I can see from the example of ITER, the only thing that scales on the tomomak is the price. Probably price as a cube of the radius. 😉

Pat