Steam-powered piston system sparks nuclear fusion plasma in Canada
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·March 12, 2025MortyWaves
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waldothedog
Looking for someone with more background here to help me contextualize the significance of this. The linked site quality seems somewhat low and I didn’t quite grok what exactly GF has accomplished here.
ForTheKidz
What does resetting this look like? How do you get lithium to re-solidify as a "wall" in the shape and place desired?
icegreentea2
For this prototype, I understood that they're using solid lithium liners. They have a casting die to make the lithium wall, so this is strictly a single shot + long reset type of thing.
I believe their proposal for an operational system is that they use a liquid lithium wall which they keep spun up for form a liner. This liquid lithium is also supposed to be their primary working fluid, so it'll be kept liquefied and continuously circulating.
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> A single MTF power plant can supply power to 150,000 homes while being close to energy demand and minimizing transmission losses.
Note that they didn't buil this. They made some small advancement in that direction, but they are still far away from a working prototype or powering 150000 homes.