Progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criterion — mentioned by gerdesj

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 23:15:50 GMT

That looks like a canonical "how we are doing" for the trade. You may find it surprising that us civilians find that chart a bit tricky to understand. The graph I was shown was more of a "lies to children" job (a Sir Terry Pratchett term for simplification of a concept to enable teaching to happen). It looked more like a somewhat lumpy y=a/log(bt) where a and b are not 1. I'm just a simple IT bod what studied a fair bit of engineering and a smattering of science back in the day. That graph looks like it forgot to put it's bloody knickers on. The one in the paper…

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Progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criterion — mentioned by cygx

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 22:19:28 GMT

We were also shown a graph of how many orders of magnitude away from ignition (for want of the correct word) by date See p.4-5 of [1] for more recent plots. It includes earlier runs of both KSTAR (the experiment under discussion) and EAST (the Chinese one mentioned in another comment), but not their most recent ones. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10954

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Progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criterion — mentioned by gerdesj

Progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criterion — mentioned by cygx