The publication provided below is concerned with showing how we can reduce the energy of particle beams injected in tokamaks while actually improving the performance. The trick is that the reduced energy, i.e., beam voltage, must be accompanied by an increase in the beam current. This allows a larger number of lower energy particles to […]
Broke a pair of loppers in the yard yesterday. I’m mostly bummed out, but also feeling a little bit tough ?
Whenever we have a training session for legal issues, it consists of a lawyer reading off a list of lawsuits. Similar to safety training, I think they are purposely using a training-by-fear technique… which totally works.
While hosting an international conference of experts on fusion plasma diagnostics, I had the privilege to teach a Hungarian scientist that margaritas are typically made with tequila. His previous margarita experience was in Cuba, where they are made with rum. The more you know ?
The Physics of Plasmas paper corresponding to my APS Invited Talk is now available and free to read: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5016160 We changed the way we shoot massive particle beams into the reactor. Go science!
I can summarize the advice from every talk/poster review I have had as, “take what you have, throw it in the garbage, do this instead.” The net result is that my talks and posters are pretty good ?