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#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Good Threshold for When the Output Is Greater Than the Input?
Fusion gain or as using the notation Q from the paper overview of the Spark talk about before. What I mean by this is that in these systems, in what you, what you want is something that where the relative amount of heating, which is keeping the fuel hot is dominated by from the fusion reactions themselves. And so it's sort of like thinking like a bonfire is a lot more interesting physically than just holding a blowtorch to a wet log. It's a lot more self-evolved and so forth. That makes it a self-sustaining type of. system, in a sense. Again, it's not that it's going to evolve to a dangerous state
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