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Originally Posted by The_Heretic
The Los Alimos fusion experiments are problematic not because of the fact fusion is reproducible, but that the process isn't yet practical. It takes them a day or more to reset all the equipment, recahrge the capcitors that run the megawatt rated X-ray lasers [256 in all] and then precisely load their deuterium-tritium sample into the fusion chamber. For that reactor to match a regular nuclear reactor they'd need to generate 80 fusion events a day and yet they can- baely manage one a day.
That's why I think there's got to be an easier way via "cold" fusion.
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Just like the electric car is not practical because of the battery problem. What I found upsetting was that Dr. Bussard was having problems with funding for his process before he passed away.
From what I read his process, guess it is now called the "Polywell", was promising, his last test for the Navy apparently proved the concept sound. The last day of the contract they ran the test and months later, after they evaluated the data the numbers were good - but interest was lagging.
http://hobbyspace.com/nucleus/HSblog.php?itemid=2815
Fusor, Polywell and Tokamak are all close - an engineering problem.