Not much new, but I just came across an article from May 21. Among the highlights are that the project has achieved sustained fusion for 10 minutes at a time and that it has generated 25 kilovolts of power. The students are now shooting for 100 kilovolts.
Question: if it receives its energy from a wall socket (120 volts in the US) and produces 25,000 volts of power, does that mean it already has a fusion energy gain of about 200? Or am I misunderstanding something? Of course, that doesn’t include the inefficiencies involved in converting the neutrons to heat, the heat to steam, the steam to kinetic energy, and the kinetic energy to electricity, but still….
