The way I understood it, the system used electromagnets to create a magnetic containment field to drive the fuel together to create the fusion event. That same magnetic containment field would experience a force from the produced charged particles. That force would produce a current in the electromagnets. That current would be stored in capacitors as a voltage which would be used as the energy source for the next magnetic compression cycle. The excess energy stored in the capacitor after the compression would be 'generated' energy.
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Yes! That is super cool tech. If I remember correctly, only about half of the fusion reaction energy was produced as charged particles though. The other half was free neutrons which are notorious for not interacting with the EM field.
I love the idea, it is such a cool direct energy capture method, but it is inherently inefficient.
I'd love to be proved wrong. I did a quick search and couldn't find the company I'm thinking of, so I'm going off memory.
That they are, but they're still spinning magnets like our honorable ancestors did.
This individual got the joke.
It's why photovoltaics are so cool. Direct electricity generation without having to spin magnets in circles like neanderthals.
What is the other meaning of undead?
That tiny smile made me smile!
It's measures your compliance with the banking industry. No bearing on how well you treat others.
I agree, LLMs have the amazingly human ability to bumble into the right answer even if they don't know why.
It seems to me that a good analogy of our experience is a whole bunch of LLMs optimized for different tasks that have some other LLM scheduler/administrator for the lower level models that is consciousness. Might be more layers deep, but that's my guess with no neurological or machine learning background.
Yo what???? I did not know that was a sample!
All that said, it certainly happens. I've seen pictures of beavers crushed by felled trees.