Nuclear Fusion Journal – Creation of a high-temperature plasma through merging and compression of supersonic field reversed configuration plasmoids (H/T Talk Polywell) A new device, the Inductive ...

Physics of Plasmas – Formation of a long-lived hot field reversed configuration by dynamically merging two colliding high-β compact toroids (H/T Talk Polywell Tri-Alpha energy (which has about $100 ...

Their work was focused mostly on improving the field-reversed configuration (FRC), a magnetic confinement technique. As the researchers note, generating fusion reactions involves first generating ...

A California-based fusion company thinks it’s cracked one of energy’s toughest problems: how to make fusion efficient, powerful, and not absurdly expensive. TAE Technologies, along with ...

It does this by dumping the toroidal field in favor of a linear one that is based on what is called the Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC) principle. The Norm reactor TAE TEchnologies ...

That’s an order of magnitude longer than researchers had previously been able to achieve using a field-reversed configuration, which is way of confining the plasma by using its own flow to ...

"The field geometry of reversed polarity, with field lines pointing into the opposite direction when compared to today's configuration, lasted for only about 440 years, and it was associated with ...