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Status on Skunkwork's Fusion Reactor Effort
2019-07-21
[TheDrive]


“We are currently scheduled to have that [the T5] go online towards the end of this year," Babione said. "So that will be another significant leap in capability and towards demonstrating that the physics underlining our concept works."


By 2017, that schedule had gotten pushed back to sometime in the mid-2020s. In his interview with Aviation Week, Babione did not offer any more of a specific timeline for when a practical reactor, which the company refers to as TX, might be ready.
Posted by:3dc

#2  Spectacularly good presentation from MIT on potential for success of various approaches to fusion power:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk

Bonus: If you can make it through the first 2/3 of the video you'll understand why the Chinese are on the right track and LMT probably is not.
Posted by: Angavinter Unerert4962   2019-07-21 16:28  

#1  I remember in 1970 hearing it was 30 years until a working reactor.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2019-07-21 10:54