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| Dec 20, 2019 at 14:59 | comment | added | Maury Markowitz | 1958 was the first multinational public release of fusion data, where everyone realized nothing was working and any hopes of a quick road to fusion evaporated. 68 was the T-3 release (well, no one believed it until 1969) when it once again looked like there was a fast route. The calculations in question are twofold, one by Todd Rider in the 90s suggested that non-thermal fuels will leak energy at rates way beyond what their fusion events could possibly make up. There's a more recent result as well,but I can't seem to find it now. | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 4:20 | comment | added | ikrase | What happened in 1957? And what calculations make non-thermalized systems unviable? | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 14:51 | history | answered | Maury Markowitz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |