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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/16/22 10:56 AM, cody dooderson
      wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="auto">I had never heard of a transatlantic power grid.
        That is an interesting idea. The sun is probably shining
        somewhere on the earth at any given time. Would a lot of energy
        get wasted with the long distances? <br>
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    <p><br>
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    <p>Nikola Tesla is rolling in his magnetically shielded grave
      hearing all this wasteful and under-inspired talk of <a
        moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theconversation.com/nikola-tesla-5g-network-could-realise-his-dream-of-wireless-electricity-a-century-after-experiments-failed-158665#:~:text=He%20theorised%20that%20electricity%20could,electricity%20supply%20were%20never%20realised.">long-range
        power transmission</a> via wires?<br>
    </p>
    <p>my SF addled brain conjures a <a moz-do-not-send="true"
        href="https://www.tntdrama.com/snowpiercer">snow-piercer</a>
      style earth-circumscribing rail-line... the pylons can be driven
      so deep into the earth's crust that they are tapped into the
      earth's inner heat, the rails can be the DC conduit Marcus
      suggests.   There can be as many windmills and tidal turbines
      placed along the line as one feels they
      need/can-afford/stand-to-see as well as a PV/thermo solar
      continuous collector/shade-roof which can also enhance gradient by
      radiating into the  (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/153839/what-is-the-temperature-of-the-clear-night-sky-from-the-surface-of-earth">2.73-273
        deg K</a>) sky at night.   The Snowpiercer rail-cars can move
      (make them pneumatic or evacuated-ballistic (~18mi/sec?)) physical
      goods and materials continuously...   (thank you Elon Musk). 
      Mount a few <a moz-do-not-send="true"
        href="https://www.spinlaunch.com/">Spinlaunch</a> units on train
      units and squirt things into orbit at-will?<br>
    </p>
    <p>Wait, maybe it can become a strip-city modeled on <a
        moz-do-not-send="true"
        href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Line,_Saudi_Arabia">SA's
        "Line"</a>... at 100 miles long and 9million population, the
      circumferential "line" would be 240 times as long and have a
      carrying capacity of >2 Billion based on their predicted
      precedent.    Place three of these orthogonal to one another like
      an <a moz-do-not-send="true"
        href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillary_sphere">armillary
        sphere</a> and we are up to 6B?   A modest bump in scale (cube
      root of 1.5) could accommodate 9B!   A few of us (DaveW, GaryS,
      ... myself)  rebellious non-urban renegades could live in the
      remaining landscape NOT covered by these 3 circumscribing strip
      cities and live our lives in the spirit of Sean Connery's
      character Zed in <a moz-do-not-send="true"
        href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070948/">Zardoz</a>!<br>
    </p>
    <p>Heck, just a nice precursor to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a11183/could-we-build-a-ringworld-17166651/">Larry
        Niven's Ringworld</a>   tell Musk he can keep his claims to
      Mars... at least until the rest of us need the mass to integrate
      into a proper <a
href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a11098/dyson-sphere/">Dyson
        Sphere</a>...</p>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 16, 2022, 10:46 AM
          Gillian Densmore <<a href="mailto:gil.densmore@gmail.com"
            moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">gil.densmore@gmail.com</a>>
          wrote:<br>
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          <div dir="ltr">frank: ah! thanks. It seems like you've had 99
            lives man.<br>
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            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at
              12:28 AM Marcus Daniels <<a
                href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com" target="_blank"
                rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"
                class="moz-txt-link-freetext">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>>
              wrote:<br>
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                  <div><span
style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I
                      like the idea of a large transatlantic DC power
                      cable.   That would enable solar power to be
                      distributed around the world.   It would reduce
                      the need to depend on batteries for wind and
                      solar.   Of course, you raise #3, so it would be a
                      target for sabotage like with Nordstream.  It
                      would be nice to think there are things just to
                      valuable to destroy, but probably there are no
                      such things.</span></div>
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                    id="m_-2301734486870571381m_8721844790296258388divRplyFwdMsg"
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                      face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b>
                      Friam <<a
                        href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com"
                        target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>>
                      on behalf of Sarbajit Roy <<a
                        href="mailto:sroy.mb@gmail.com" target="_blank"
                        rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">sroy.mb@gmail.com</a>><br>
                      <b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 16, 2022 12:01 AM<br>
                      <b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
                      Coffee Group <<a
                        href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank"
                        rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">friam@redfish.com</a>><br>
                      <b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] technical notes on
                      fusion announcement</font>
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                      <div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">What
                        you are missing includes
                        <br>
                        1) Disposal of long term hazardous nuclear
                        waste.<br>
                        2) Problems in maintaining / decommissioning ol
                        older nuclear fission plants<br>
                        3) Examples like we are seeing Ukraine's nuclear
                        plants caught up in a war.</div>
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                      <div dir="ltr">On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 2:59 AM
                        Gillian Densmore <<a
                          href="mailto:gil.densmore@gmail.com"
                          target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                          class="moz-txt-link-freetext">gil.densmore@gmail.com</a>>
                        wrote:<br>
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                          <div>Ok so this is cool and all. <br>
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                          <div>Sigh I'll ask <i>that</i> question. We
                            want less carbons because <a
                              href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFgBFYkBZ6E"
                              target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                              moz-do-not-send="true">the planet is on
                              f'n fire</a>  . As far as I know humans
                            (in the very least) accelerated climate
                            change. Ie we made this mess clean it up. ok
                            fair so far I'm following.</div>
                          <div>So uh why not just start with fission
                            (breeders) ? Why not also put as much money
                            into matter/anti matter as well as fusion?
                            We can make minute amounts of antimatter in
                            massive collider. I'd think something who's
                            by product are xrays gamma and some other
                            stuff with a lot of energy created would be
                            a massive honney pot the department of
                            energy would pursue as well.</div>
                          <div>I know the answer to fission (sadly) is
                            NIMBY. (yes but it's a lot cleaner and safer
                            than oil and coal I say)
                            <br>
                          </div>
                          <div>I don't know why we haven't looked at
                            other things as well</div>
                          <div>What I'm saying is fusion has been humans
                            icarus wings with it being just arround the
                            corner for decades. while matter/anti matter
                            is (sort of) here. Fission is here. Want
                            zero carbons? cool! so why not build out a
                            ton of reactors we already can do. Or am I
                            missing something?<br>
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                          <div dir="ltr">On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 8:31 AM
                            Marcus Daniels <<a
                              href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com"
                              target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                              class="moz-txt-link-freetext">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>>
                            wrote:<br>
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                            <div dir="auto">How ICF might evolve into a
                              power plant:
                              <div><br>
                              </div>
                              <div>  <a
                                  href="https://firstlightfusion.com/technology/power-plant"
                                  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                                  moz-do-not-send="true"
                                  class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://firstlightfusion.com/technology/power-plant</a><br>
                                <br>
                                <div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div>
                                <div dir="ltr"><br>
                                  <blockquote type="cite">On Dec 14,
                                    2022, at 7:16 AM, glen <<a
                                      href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com"
                                      target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                                      class="moz-txt-link-freetext">gepropella@gmail.com</a>>
                                    wrote:<br>
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                                  <div dir="ltr"><span>Excellent!
                                      Thanks. I think I'll have to push
                                      this topic for another day. I've
                                      got a few more links from other
                                      fora I'll plop here just in case I
                                      only land back here if/when I pop
                                      it off the stack later:</span><br>
                                    <span></span><br>
                                    <span><a
href="https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/magnetized-targets-boost-nif-implosion-performance"
                                        target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/magnetized-targets-boost-nif-implosion-performance</a></span><br>
                                    <span><a
href="https://spie.org/news/nuclear-fusion-nifs-hall-of-mirrors-may-solve-worlds-energy-crisis?SSO=1"
                                        target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://spie.org/news/nuclear-fusion-nifs-hall-of-mirrors-may-solve-worlds-energy-crisis?SSO=1</a></span><br>
                                    <span><a
href="https://www.science.org/content/article/fusion-power-may-run-fuel-even-gets-started"
                                        target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.science.org/content/article/fusion-power-may-run-fuel-even-gets-started</a></span><br>
                                    <span><a
href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/what-enabled-the-big-boost-in-fusion-energy-announced-this-week/"
                                        target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
                                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/what-enabled-the-big-boost-in-fusion-energy-announced-this-week/</a></span><br>
                                    <span></span><br>
                                    <span>On 12/13/22 16:23, Steve Smith
                                      wrote:</span><br>
                                    <blockquote type="cite"><span>I
                                        think DT refers simply to the
                                        remaining fraction of
                                        Deuterium/Tritium remaining
                                        after the reaction event (-4%)
                                        without specific accounting for
                                        remaining D vs T.</span><br>
                                    </blockquote>
                                    <blockquote type="cite"><span>My
                                        understanding is that D-T 
                                        fusion occurs at a lower
                                        temperature than D-D but that
                                        once fusion commences (starting
                                        with D-T), both D-T and D-D
                                        reactions occurring in similar
                                        amounts. In laser-driven ICF (as
                                        with NIF) I believe the ratio of
                                        D/T is nominally 50/50 though it
                                        would seem to make sense to have
                                        a higher T to D ratio but most
                                        references I see imply equal
                                        portions.   An equal number of
                                        D-D and D-T reactions would seem
                                        to consume D more quickly,
                                        though as that commences, the
                                        D/T ratio would go down, making
                                        D-T reactions (yet) more
                                        likely...   tricky business, no
                                        wonder it has taken decades to
                                        get to this point?</span><br>
                                    </blockquote>
                                    <blockquote type="cite"><span>The
                                        Wikipedia Entry on ICF is pretty
                                        good: <a
                                          href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_confinement_fusion"
                                          target="_blank"
                                          rel="noreferrer"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          class="moz-txt-link-freetext">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_confinement_fusion</a></span><br>
                                    </blockquote>
                                    <blockquote type="cite"><span>I
                                        found several popular science
                                        Articles which seem to reinforce
                                        my sense that this
                                        "breakthrough" is not as
                                        significant as implied:</span><br>
                                    </blockquote>
                                    <blockquote type="cite"><span>   <a
href="https://www.science.org/content/article/fusion-breakthrough-nif-uh-not-really"
                                          target="_blank"
                                          rel="noreferrer"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.science.org/content/article/fusion-breakthrough-nif-uh-not-really</a></span><br>
                                    </blockquote>
                                    <blockquote type="cite"><span>Other
                                        interesting/relevant links
                                        regarding D-T and D-D fusion...</span><br>
                                    </blockquote>
                                    <blockquote type="cite"><span><a
href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263507001_Species_separation_and_modification_of_neutron_diagnostics_in_inertial-confinement_fusion/figures?lo=1"
                                          target="_blank"
                                          rel="noreferrer"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263507001_Species_separation_and_modification_of_neutron_diagnostics_in_inertial-confinement_fusion/figures?lo=1</a></span><br>
                                    </blockquote>
                                    <blockquote type="cite"><span><a
href="https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainsnuclear-fusion-reactions"
                                          target="_blank"
                                          rel="noreferrer"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainsnuclear-fusion-reactions</a>
                                        <<a
href="https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainsnuclear-fusion-reactions"
                                          target="_blank"
                                          rel="noreferrer"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainsnuclear-fusion-reactions</a>></span><br>
                                    </blockquote>
                                    <blockquote type="cite"><span><a
href="https://science.jrank.org/pages/4732/Nuclear-Fusion-D-D-D-T-reactions.html"
                                          target="_blank"
                                          rel="noreferrer"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://science.jrank.org/pages/4732/Nuclear-Fusion-D-D-D-T-reactions.html</a>
                                        <<a
href="https://science.jrank.org/pages/4732/Nuclear-Fusion-D-D-D-T-reactions.html"
                                          target="_blank"
                                          rel="noreferrer"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://science.jrank.org/pages/4732/Nuclear-Fusion-D-D-D-T-reactions.html</a>></span><br>
                                    </blockquote>
                                    <blockquote type="cite"><span>On
                                        12/13/22 4:36 PM, glen wrote:</span><br>
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                                    <blockquote type="cite">
                                      <blockquote type="cite"><span>That's
                                          why I asked. I guess I'll
                                          assume DT means both deuterium
                                          and tritium, not just
                                          deuterium. If you were going
                                          to track fuel use, you'd track
                                          the rarer part more closely,
                                          right?</span><br>
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                                    </blockquote>
                                    <blockquote type="cite">
                                      <blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br>
                                      </blockquote>
                                    </blockquote>
                                    <blockquote type="cite">
                                      <blockquote type="cite"><span>On
                                          12/13/22 09:22, Frank Wimberly
                                          wrote:</span><br>
                                      </blockquote>
                                    </blockquote>
                                    <blockquote type="cite">
                                      <blockquote type="cite">
                                        <blockquote type="cite"><span>DT
                                            = deuterium?</span><br>
                                        </blockquote>
                                      </blockquote>
                                    </blockquote>
                                    <blockquote type="cite">
                                      <blockquote type="cite">
                                        <blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br>
                                        </blockquote>
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                                    </blockquote>
                                    <blockquote type="cite">
                                      <blockquote type="cite">
                                        <blockquote type="cite"><span>---</span><br>
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                                    </blockquote>
                                    <blockquote type="cite">
                                      <blockquote type="cite">
                                        <blockquote type="cite"><span>Frank
                                            C. Wimberly</span><br>
                                        </blockquote>
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                                            670-9918</span><br>
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                                        <blockquote type="cite"><span>On
                                            Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 10:21 AM
                                            glen <<a
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                                            Awesome. Thanks. I'm still
                                            trying to catch up with the
                                            QC Wormhole kerfuffle. Who
                                            knew Quanta was so click
                                            baity?</span><br>
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                                            What is "DT"?</span><br>
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                                            On 12/13/22 09:02, Marcus
                                            Daniels wrote:</span><br>
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                                            > In case no one wanted
                                            to get up at 7:00am to watch
                                            DOE administrators talk:</span><br>
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                                            > 1. Controlling the
                                            laser in space and time was
                                            important for maintaining
                                            symmetry.  Timing precision
                                            of 25e-12 secs and laser
                                            spatial precision of 5e-12
                                            meter were needed. This was
                                            thought to be the main
                                            explanation for the
                                            achievement.</span><br>
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                                            > 2. 8% more power on the
                                            laser this time</span><br>
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                                            > 3. x-ray tomography is
                                            used to find flaws in the
                                            capsules.  Developing
                                            software to do the counting.</span><br>
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                                            ></span><br>
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                                            > 4. They have ongoing
                                            efforts to study the
                                            fabrication systems and
                                            their components (done in
                                            Germany) to find
                                            idiosyncrasies of each.</span><br>
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                                            ></span><br>
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                                            > 5. Laser technology
                                            improvements since NIF was
                                            built which are 20% more
                                            efficient.</span><br>
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                                            ></span><br>
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                                        <blockquote type="cite"><span>    
                                            > 6. Target cost is from
                                            labor, and it takes 7 months
                                            each</span><br>
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                                            ></span><br>
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                                        <blockquote type="cite"><span>    
                                            > 7. 4% of DT is burned
                                            in a shot</span><br>
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                                            ></span><br>
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                                        <blockquote type="cite"><span>    
                                            > 8. Machine learning
                                            ties together radiation
                                            hydrodynamics and
                                            experimental data.   (It
                                            sounded preliminary.)</span><br>
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                                            ></span><br>
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                                        <blockquote type="cite"><span>    
                                            > 9. The (successful)
                                            capsule had more defects
                                            than previous experiments.  
                                            However, previous
                                            experiments did show
                                            benefits from capsule
                                            quality.</span><br>
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                                            ></span><br>
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                                        <blockquote type="cite"><span>    
                                            > 10. 15% of experiments
                                            are indirect drive of this
                                            kind, 15% of experiments are
                                            other approaches to
                                            ignition.  The rest are
                                            weapons and materials
                                            characterization.</span><br>
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                                            > 11. Anomalous laser
                                            directional control were
                                            problems in the summer
                                            runs.   Fixed that.</span><br>
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