michael_nielsen

i spent a lot of time looking at all fission and fusion startups i could find and am pretty confident we've funded the best of both

@sama An old joke in physics is that controlled fusion has been 10 years away for 50 years. I hope this time is different, & curious how so

@michael_nielsen @sama my best one tweet answer is a method of efficiently heating the ions directly to near fusion temps

@DanielleFong @sama With a different heating mechanism to (say) NIF?

@michael_nielsen @sama yes very different -- accelerate the plasmodium to 300 km/a and collide with another & merge Gets to multi keV temp

@DanielleFong @sama What's plasmodium? (Wikipedia thinks it's a protozoa.)

@michael_nielsen @sama (damn you autocorrect). I meant plasmoid; technically it's a field reversed configuration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-reversed_configuration …