Even compact tokamaks get a lot better when you make them bigger: radiation damage to the central solenoid of spherical tokamaks as a function of device size
Microblog
I thought micro.blog was neat, but I had no idea about Webmentions and all these other independent connection capabilities. IndieWeb is a quite a movement.
I was one of the people who assumed Major League Soccer (MLS) was skyrocketing in popularity, but after reading this summary of the financial status of MLS (it’s really a critique of those finances) I’ve realized that does not appear to be true. This definitely factors into my level of support for spending money to […]
An excellent tour of the inside of a fusion reactor, from our friends at MIT-PSFC: 3D Tour of Alcator C-Mod I can only imagine how awesome this is with VR glasses.
Google and Tri Alpha worked together to improve the execution of plasma experiments and this is a great example of industry expertise being applied to research endeavors. I hope that fusion energy research becomes more open to this kind of partnership. There is a lot of room for materials science to make a splash in fusion.
Reading under dog supervision, all is well. I like that it’s kind of a trippy photo due to the bright light through the window.