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- The very neat and simple form of nuclear fusion power, that has shown to be difficult to work a team of Washington University has made great progress with.
I couldn't find any threads about this experiment on this forum, so here I try to introduce it and also I later have som suggestion to improve it.
Very shortly the machine produce a ring formed sheet along a rod, which climbs up and at the end of the rod it stretch out and compress to a thin thread. A so called Z-pinch. Here is where the interesting things happened. The thread compresses and heat even more and fusion start. Unlike many other Z pinch devices this gives a stable thread for som time. Some time is tens of microseconds. Yep that is long when it comes to fusion of the more high density kind.
The article Sheared flow Z-pinch shows that the speed is different at different radies and that is what stops the thread to kink or sausage for some time. It's a pulsating kind of device.
They have been working on this over 10 years and recently they have achieved fusion and of course then high temperatures and high density in the plasma. It's seems very promising and I so much like the simplicity of the device. Then you need MA current, several kV and other quite challenging features, but still not impossible.
What do you know about it or want to comment on it?
Very shortly the machine produce a ring formed sheet along a rod, which climbs up and at the end of the rod it stretch out and compress to a thin thread. A so called Z-pinch. Here is where the interesting things happened. The thread compresses and heat even more and fusion start. Unlike many other Z pinch devices this gives a stable thread for som time. Some time is tens of microseconds. Yep that is long when it comes to fusion of the more high density kind.
The article Sheared flow Z-pinch shows that the speed is different at different radies and that is what stops the thread to kink or sausage for some time. It's a pulsating kind of device.
They have been working on this over 10 years and recently they have achieved fusion and of course then high temperatures and high density in the plasma. It's seems very promising and I so much like the simplicity of the device. Then you need MA current, several kV and other quite challenging features, but still not impossible.
What do you know about it or want to comment on it?