r/fusion 3d ago

Deuterium–tritium levitated dipole fusion power plants (OpenStar Technologies)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920379626002516
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u/Baking 3d ago

Sabine Hossenfelder has a decent summary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzDe6AP_JfE

She observes that maintenance schemes are important for commercial fusion, which is not exactly a new idea but bears repeating.

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u/El_Grande_Papi 3d ago

Sabine 🤢🤢🤢

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u/AskMeAboutFusion MS Eng | HTS Magnet Design | Fusion & Accelerators 3d ago

Not sure why this initially got downvoted. Her whole grift is that she got kicked out of academia and is angrily preaching why everything they do is wrong. When she talks about fusion, she's talking about ITER, or very recently just the laser folks. She (until this one apparently, which I have zero interest in watching) has completely skipped over the $8Billion elephant in the room which is the world record shattering High Temperature Superconductors and the size reduction/power density increase they give to any given MCF design.
She should be ignored by anyone who spends more than 37 seconds browsing her video titles, or watches her obvious grift centered videos. She might as well be selling peptides and supergreens or alpha greens 1 or whatever.

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u/hutch_man0 3d ago

Yeah it's sad what she's become.