Monday, August 4, 2008

Fusion reactors

Bussard IEC (Inertial Electrostatic Confinement) prototype tested. Film at 11. 11 being defined here as 4-8 weeks. OTOH they are already planning to build the next one at the 100KW output size and go for the gold, so the news must be promising, indeed.

3 comments:

M. Simon said...

The full scale prototype is 100 MW.

Dave said...

Damn you Simon, you beat me to it!

Watch for the peer review results. That's where attention should be focused.

Billll said...

I put that typo on deliberately to see if anyone was reading.
Honest.

Furthermore, if I'm elected.....