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#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy
Lex Fridman Podcast
How Do Plasmas Work?
In a gas, you can think of this as being this room and the things that you can't see them, is that the molecules are flying around. But then with some frequency, they basically bounce into each other. And so it turns out that the probability and the distances and the scattering of those of what they do, it's those interactions that set the, about how a gas behaves. In plasmas however, because the particles have electric charge, this means that they can push against each other without actually being in close proximity to each other. Which is probably very relevant for nuclear fusion.
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