Dennis Whyte
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I mean, we'd seen it in glimpses before in magnetic confinement at relatively small levels.
But apparently, it seems like in this experiment, it's likely to be a dominant, dominated by self-heating.
That's a very important, that's a very... So that makes it a self-sustaining type of... It's more self-sustaining, it's more self-referential system, in a sense.
And it sort of self-evolves in a way.
Again, it's not that it's going to evolve to a dangerous state.
It's just that we want to see what happens when the fusion is the dominant heating source.
We try to use all these analogies.
What actually happens?
Actually, there's usually mass confusion about this.
So what's going on in this form of energy?
So the fuel is delivered in a discrete, the fusion fuel, the deuterium and tritium, is in a discrete spherical, it's more like a BB, let's call it a BB.
So it's a small one.
And all the fuel that you're going to try to burn is basically there.
Okay.
And it's about that size.
So how are you going to get โ and it's at โ literally, it's like at 20 degrees above absolute zero because the deuterium and tritium are kept in a liquid and solid state.
It's actually โ and it's very โ and in these particular experiments, they can introduce one of these โ
these targets once per day, approximately something like that.
Cause it's very, it's very, it's a kind of amazing technology actually that I know some of the people that worked on this back in the, is they actually make these things at a BB size of this frozen fuel.
It's actually at cryogenic temperatures and they're almost like smooth to the atom level.