Dennis Whyte

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy · 21 Jan 2023 podcast

What it does is it does those things.

And it should get to the point where it's producing over 100 million watts of fusion power.

But remember, it's 40 times smaller.

So ITER was 500 megawatts.

Technically, our design is around 150 megawatts.

So it's only about a factor of three difference despite being 40 times smaller.

And we see QP large, order of 10 or something like this.

At that state is very important scientifically because this basically matches what ITER is looking to do.

The plasma is dominated by its own heating.

It's very, very important.

And it does that for about 10 seconds.

And the reason it's for 10 seconds is that in terms of that, that basically allows everything to settle in terms of the fusion in the plasma equilibrium, everything is nice and settled.

So, you know, you have seen the physical state at which you would expect a power plant to operate basically for, for magnetic fusion.

Like, wow.

Right.

But it's more than that.

And it's more than that.

It's because about who's building it and why and how it's being financed.

So, that scientific pathway was made possible by the fact that we had access to a next generation of magnet technology.

So, to explain this real quick, why do we call it, you said it in the words, a superconducting magnet?

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