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243 points greesil | 1 comments | 21 Jul 25 15:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.346s | source
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chris_va ◴[21 Jul 25 17:08 UTC] No.44637630[source]▶
A better link: https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5532945/w7x?c=5481737

(there is some irony in using the iter.org link for a stellarator announcement)

1.8GJ over 360 seconds, beta of 0.03

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greesil ◴[22 Jul 25 04:57 UTC] No.44643375[source]▶
The irony is delicious.

Especially considering the total budget of it is $340 millions vs ITER's tens of billions.

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1. XorNot ◴[22 Jul 25 08:58 UTC] No.44644705[source]▶
Wendelstein is a plasma research machine, not a net energy machine. There's no version at that price point which is a viable power plant - ITER is the smallest viable power plant (but you wouldn't want to run it). DEMO is it's successor which is 10x larger in terms of vacuum volume and is meant to be an actual electricity producing plant.