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June 23, 2013 at 7:18 am #12756
benf
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Maya wrote:
66 kJ ? Not even a power figure here? And all for just a “few million amps”!!? You’re killing me over here.

Maybe people don’t want the expensive, behemoth steam driven turbine AC generators anymore after the Fukushima experience and the problems with our grid. So we see the advent of the SMR, the small modular reactor. Unfortunately at this point the trend for those is going to be steam driven turbine AC fission technology.

For a large number of people even a hundred watts is a very big deal. (They aren’t living in ivory towers).

Maybe there is an issue of pressure in any size or form of fusion we could dream up. Great if you have it figured out! Bring the idea to the people in a way that’s
useful to them soon. In the meantime other approaches will have to be tested as well, that’s just reality.

You never know, 5MW could also light up a lot of folks lives.