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Nuclear Fusion’s Time is (Finally) Coming

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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How Do You Overcome That Force?

The amount of fusion, you get goes simply with ity squared with temperature. The denser your ions are, the less time you need for them to have a chance of colliding with each other. And if it's really not very dense at all, you have to hold that temperature for much longer to make sure you get enough collisions. But actually both approaches cand have the same triple product.

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