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by hobscoop 1426 days ago
I thought they were ultimately limited by problems of corrosion at the electrodes?

Helion's scheme to turn fusion heat into pushing E&M fields back through their magnet to generate electricity is pretty different from a standard MHD generator.

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And it's only possible because the reactor produces a series of small explosions of alpha particles.