The 'dumb machine' promising a clean energy breakthrough
A stellarator is difficult to build, but could it be the best way to make fusion energy work?
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""I remember a few people said that the place where Proxima is today was impossible.""
— Francesco Sciortino , Executive
""A stellarator is a thing that is objectively very difficult to design, objectively very difficult to build. But if you do it, it is a dumb machine... just like a microwave oven.""
— Francesco Sciortino , Executive
""Tokamaks have the advantage of a deep experimental foundation built over decades. They have demonstrated plasma performance closer to what's required for a fusion power plant, including operation with fusion fuel.""
— Ryan Ramsey , Executive
""They [tokamaks] benefit from comparatively simpler magnetic geometry, with fewer and more regular coils. That has real implications for manufacturability, maintainability, and cost.""
— Ryan Ramsey , Executive
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