So, does it work?
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I’m sorry, I’m not smart enough to nuclear physics and engineering, and ARC reactor like the one in fucking Iron Man’s chest?
It stands for "affordable, robust, compact" but is 100% a nod to Iron Man.
It's a little bigger, tho.
So..... Ant man's chest?
Yo, chat, is this legit?
Well I have not read too much of that edition and I am also not a plasma physicist, but the way that blurb text extract is written it sounds more like "Lots of really smart people simulated our fusion reactor and found no weird physics causing it to explode or simply not turn on".
I think this because they talk about checking the "plasma reaction assumptions"! So in theory it can work, but afaik lots of other fusion reactors could in theory work as well. This says nothing about whether their engineering will be able to actually extract that energy...
Edit: I couldn't resist and at least started the abstracts and they even looked at the theoretical extraction efficiency, but as I am not an expert in anything close to this field I still cannot tell anything about wether or not it will hold water (well, plasma).
Lotsa ifs. If sparc works, then arc should work too. China's ahead in the plasma game and they don't have a reactor yet that can sustain stable plasma for long enough to generate more than is put in (Q > 1), but the BEST tokamak is targeted for 2027 so we'll see what happens. If they pull it off, shit is gonna get mad real
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