[ExI] Nuclear fusion reactor could be here as soon as 2025

[Giulio Prisco]

I have been doing some more reading. Sparc definitely uses He3. I'm
trying to understand how central He3 is to Sparc operations. Here are
the MIT and CFS press releases, with links to the papers (all open
access):

https://news.mit.edu/2020/physics-fusion-studies-0929
https://cfs.energy/news-and-media/new-scientific-papers-predict-historic-results-for
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-plasma-physics/collections/status-of-the-sparc-physics-basis

On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 4:20 PM Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 12:24 PM John Grigg via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > Giulio Prisco wrote:
> > "Does this require Helium-3? Or not?"
> >
> > From what I have read, it does not. And so I suppose we don't need to build it on the Moon! Lol
> >
> I guess this does require trace amounts of Helium-3:
>
> "the ICRH power is primarily absorbed in a helium-3 minority..."
> https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022377820001257
>
> My interpretation (I need to read the papers more carefully though) is
> that traces amounts of Helium-3 are needed for this fusion method to
> work. Yes, this would be a powerful incentive to mine lunar Helium-3.