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[Joeviocoe]

jimmarsen wrote: What about scaling up the yield per shot? Is that feasible?

That is the first thing they are trying to do. But there are many limits to that too. Yield scales to the 4.7th power of Current (I^4.7). But current is limited by MANY parts of the device. Capacitors, switches (low jitter needed), the electrodes especially need to handle the higher current. Once yield per shot is maximized, they can take it to the next limit of cycle rate… which have their own limitations too.

So they are estimating 132 kJ output from the plasmoid for each shot. After conversion losses and recycling 100 kJ for the next shot… that is 24.7 kJ net output for each shot. And they estimate that a production reactor could function at a cycle rate of 200 times per second and only need maintenance once a month.

These are bold claims that they will spend the next few years proving.