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Ashton Forbes

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1638 total appearances

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Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

So even if I were to take one of these brand new Rebco superconducting magnets that can achieve 30 Tesla, I'm gonna get 10 times more out of that magnet using field reverse configuration than I would at Tokamak.

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

So this is why we're trying to, I think the smart people are moving away from these Tokamak hot fusion designs and moving towards that.

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

So now why is this relevant for the orbs?

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

There's no chance the orbs are a tokamak.

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

You can't build something like that that's not almost perfectly efficient.

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

So those are a high beta regime.

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

I believe they're also using a field reverse configuration design in them.

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

But there's something in there, like a tube, essentially.

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

And what I would imagine it looks like is like a picket fence.

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

where you have alternating magnetic fields up, down, up, down, up, down.

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

Why?

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

Because then this will create a synchronization between it, where all the waves sync up, where all the atoms sync up.

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

In fact, it creates like a traffic jam, where now everything's stuck trying to get through this gap like a fire hose.

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

And that's how I think they turned it into a fusion reactor.

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

It's a jet engine that they basically pulled out all the engine parts.

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

And we're like, this is now just a heat exchange.

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

And we're going to ionize the plasma.

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

And what they use...

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

is they use the air as fuel.

Matt Beall Podcast
Ashton Forbes | Orbs, Fusion Technology, & the Missing General

The big secret to rockets and rocket engines in general is that the actual fuel is the big, heaviest part, even the rockets that we just sent into the sky.