tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post7759277257367145908..comments2024-03-19T01:48:39.709+00:00Comments on Power and Control: The Secret Of The TokamakM. Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-56136015001504156242008-02-14T05:18:00.000+00:002008-02-14T05:18:00.000+00:00Amazing.I'm having another try: instead of "instab...Amazing.<BR/><BR/>I'm having another try: instead of "instabilities" how about "reaction".M. Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-77743271085733520892008-02-13T19:20:00.000+00:002008-02-13T19:20:00.000+00:00But the pictures were pretty and the video was coo...But the pictures were pretty and the video was cool. This was in 1998, when they had been running TFTR for almost 20 years.J Carltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024996022541795571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-52283358971694103822008-02-13T07:37:00.000+00:002008-02-13T07:37:00.000+00:00If more money will not speed things up it means th...If more money will not speed things up it means they are shooting totally in the dark. <BR/><BR/>Unbelievable.<BR/><BR/>I do think a lot has to do with semantics. When plasmas get kinky we say they have "instabilities".<BR/><BR/>The proper term is "self organizing".M. Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-49476338895269021582008-02-13T05:47:00.000+00:002008-02-13T05:47:00.000+00:00Simona long time ago now I worked at Doe's Jeffers...Simon<BR/>a long time ago now I worked at Doe's Jefferson lab down in VA. One of the cool things they had there was a series of speakers come in every month or so. One of the speakers was the head of Plasma Physics at Princeton(the Tokamack people.) In the Q & A after his presentation I asked him point blank when the would be a working fusion Tokamack and he said fifty years. I also asked if having more money would make any difference and he said that it would not.J Carltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024996022541795571noreply@blogger.com