From: Mike Rosing <rosing@neurophys.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion,sci.energy,sci.physics.plasma
Subject: Re: Advance Claimed in Fusion Research
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
References: <aiuqmq$13h0$1@saturn.cs.uml.edu>


sanman wrote:
> Here's an article from NewScientist:
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992637
>
> They claim an advance in being able to sustain a plasma discharge for
> upto 210 secs. So is this another stunt by researchers looking to show
> progress in their long-unrealized goal of achieving practical fusion
> power? Or is it a significant and worthwhile advance?

Thanks for the pointer. It's a good "stunt", especially if they can
repeat it a bunch of times. If ITER is going to run with 30 minute
"pulses" as they called 'em, then they are still a factor of 10 away
in run time. Getting that far in 3 years won't be easy, but it's "only"
a factor of 10. That's something the engineering team can work with,
so it's a worthwhile advance.

Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike

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Mike Rosing
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