Lerner wrote: Tokamaks have been claimed to be basicaly an engineering project for 40 years. Ultimately, GF is also asking the plasma to sit still like a good dog while it is compresssed. Sounds good until you get instabilities.
My non-technical generalization has been: Nature permits only Big and Tiny fusion. Star-sized, or microplasmoid sized. Both of those can suppress instabilities long enough for fusion temperatures to occur.
Mid- and human-sized is “forbidden territory”. Plasma is too damn frisky for stable artificial containment.
Am I being too simplistic?
