Reply To: turn heat into electricity

[Maya]

zapkitty wrote:

Pretty much irrelevant since ITER and its costs are in no way a design paradigm for a commercial fusion reactor… even a tokamak 🙂

I think that mostly sums up your overall response, so I’ll just respond to that.

Actually, what I said was that for various reasons the limits you envision do not apply to many fusion concepts and I listed some of them and briefly described one of them 🙂

Perhaps you should read through what you called “IP proposals” again… each one has their own way of dealing with what you seem to have come to believe must be an insurmountable problem.

We can discuss the details of their various solutions if you’d like.

By example, if your material is a single-species plasma you can do a fair estimate by just calculating the electrostatic forces between the particles in a given volume. If it is a multi-species plasma you’ll probably want a coefficient to help you calculate the pressure. And the same would be true of other materials. But in every case, the pressure will be enormous. So, for _each_ proposal, as you say, it is incumbent on the proponent to provide that calculation based on their chosen material. They will get a number called Pascals. Then we can all see what it implies.