Friend of mine used to work on it. I think, from one of the pub chats we often had, the average number of times each atom in the reactor wall was expected to be knocked out of place by neutron collisions was in the order of 100.
This is why I am down on fusion compared to most advocates. On the other hand, I’m also up compared to most pessimists because the everlasting delay looks like it’s caused by an asymptotic-to-zero funding graph.
I still have silly ideas about how to improve the efficiency of Farnsworth-type designs — one I’ve never had time to simulate was “can star mode be enhanced with a simple magnetic field, and does it happen in the first place because of the magnetic field created by current flowing between inner and outer grids?”. I had that idea 10 years ago, I hope someone here has more time to sim it than I do.
This is why I am down on fusion compared to most advocates. On the other hand, I’m also up compared to most pessimists because the everlasting delay looks like it’s caused by an asymptotic-to-zero funding graph.
I still have silly ideas about how to improve the efficiency of Farnsworth-type designs — one I’ve never had time to simulate was “can star mode be enhanced with a simple magnetic field, and does it happen in the first place because of the magnetic field created by current flowing between inner and outer grids?”. I had that idea 10 years ago, I hope someone here has more time to sim it than I do.