David Kirtley

And then use that to understand what's happening in the actual programs and the actual generators themselves.

All right.

So there's a million questions there.

So how much fusion do you get out in these systems?

And that's really the right key question.

So we already talked about beta, that B squared, the magnetic pressure, is equal to NKT, N being the density, T being temperature.

And then we talked about fusion, where your goal for fusion is to get particles hot, high temperature, get enough of them together, density, and then you wanna get them together long enough

We call that tau.

So N, T, and tau.

Long enough that fusion happens.

And a lot of fusion happens.

More than any of the loss rates that are happening in T tau.

And in beta, with B squared, you know already two of those parameters, N and T, are equal.

And so that tells you right away the goal is to maximize magnetic field.

Absolutely maximize magnetic field.

And most folks in magnetic fusion, whether it's a tokamak or...

or it's a theta bench, or it's an FRC, are attempting to do that, maximize the magnetic field.

So we're all pushing to that.

What's really nice in pulse systems is that we know how to do that.

In fact,