m3t00🌎Mtoscience@lemmy.worldEnglish·6 months agoNuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds(www.livescience.com)external-linkarrow-up1837arrow-down113message-square259file-textfedilink
arrow-up1824arrow-down1external-linkNuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds(www.livescience.com)m3t00🌎Mtoscience@lemmy.worldEnglish·6 months agomessage-square259file-textfedilink
minus-squareMaco1969arrow-up2arrow-down0·6 months agolinkfedilinkI wonder if there isn’t a stable chamber shape that promotes turbulence in a controlled manner in order to prevent it getting out of hand? A little bit like the dimples on a golf ball create micro pockets of turbulence promoting laminar flow.
minus-squareRubberElectronsarrow-up1arrow-down0·6 months agoedit-26 months agolinkfedilinkUnknown. There were attempts into that general idea, one of them is the polywell, but I don’t know too much about it.
I wonder if there isn’t a stable chamber shape that promotes turbulence in a controlled manner in order to prevent it getting out of hand? A little bit like the dimples on a golf ball create micro pockets of turbulence promoting laminar flow.
Unknown. There were attempts into that general idea, one of them is the polywell, but I don’t know too much about it.