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[–] TropicalDingdong 305 points 2 days ago (5 children)
[–] NOT_RICK 80 points 2 days ago
[–] Evotech 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Flexing is not good for the containment

[–] AngryCommieKender 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, but some guy proved that we could use that to our advantage. If you don't use the magnetic constrictors to compensate for the heat from the fusion expanding the vessel, you can have it enter fusion and leave fusion several times a second. Wrap the thing in copper wire coils, and you have now got your vessel in a state of flux, and producing enough power to blackout your local grid, and get lots of fines from the feds in less than 5 seconds of runtime. He obviously didn't continue working on that particular method of generating power with a Tokomak

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can you link to something so I can read more about this please?

[–] AngryCommieKender 3 points 2 days ago

Wish I could. Only reason I know about it, is that it was mentioned briefly in the Navy Nuclear Power Program training materials.

[–] hakunawazo 3 points 2 days ago

5,318008 seconds should be a new goal.

[–] Cheems 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Rumor is next they are trying for 11.6858˙3 hours

[–] _stranger_ 0 points 2 days ago

Elven time conversion is the worst.