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243 points greesil | 1 comments | 21 Jul 25 15:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.372s | source
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bradleyy ◴[21 Jul 25 15:50 UTC] No.44636650[source]▶
In any future fusion power plant, a plasma with a high triple product must be maintained for long periods.

I love vague terms like "long periods". Long compared to the Planck length? Geological time? Is the advertised 43 seconds almost there or "off by 17 orders of magnitude?"

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1. rnhmjoj ◴[21 Jul 25 16:34 UTC] No.44637170[source]▶
Long compared to the current generation of experiments. JET pulses lasted a couple of seconds, an actual power plant might be more like a couple of hours or even a steady-state.