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by willis936 1569 days ago
Spark notes on issues: Lies by omission.

- No mention of lawson criterion performance.

- Only 3 nuclear MCF machines ever (ie that even have a Q).

- Conflates MCF machines with ICF machines (ICF machines are funded under DoE's "nuclear stockpile maintenance" line item, not energy research).

- No mention of plasma self-heating. ITER is 50% shy of lawson criterion performance necessary for a Q=infinity reactor (if it were a stellarator).