Reply To: Toshiba's "Micro Nuclear Reactor" – it's not fusion, but it's here now

[zapkitty]

AaronB wrote: Wow. Maybe they’re closer to achieving the fusion dream than we’d thought. 😉

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AaronB wrote: LPP would gladly take $5M in seed money, and do a lot of good things with it. Forget $5M, we’d take $1M and see how close we could come to breakeven!

What could be causing investors to shy off of aneutronics?

Polywell seems to hover on the edge of a government intelligence black hole… or at least Nebel and company have left that impression.

Tri-alpha is secretive but I’m sure having the name Jeff Bezos would result in a red-carpet guided tour complete w/ plushy CBR souvenir.

FF is an open book.

Musing aloud, the only outstanding issues with FF that wouldn’t be solved with net power would be capacitor wear and, to a lesser extent, electrode wear.

LPP seems to have hedged against ‘trode wear by increasing the expected changeouts to a monthly cycle.

Any alternative solutions to cap wear? There’s always that big coil… 😉

… I know, I know…

… but this really does seem like the money is being steered to the least likely candidates… again…