Magnetic Thermonuclear Fusion

According to the International Energy Agency, global energy demand is expected to double by 2050. Part of the solution to the supply of electricity and to the development of advanced industrial projects, is the magnetic thermonuclear power plant paradigm and supply chain endeavor. What this means, basically, is that the development of innovative designs and the actual construction of fusion projects will create a fusion economy to foster good jobs and advanced technology through the enrichment of socio-economic outcomes. In essence, however, the multitude of thermonuclear designs has to somehow coalesce around a working model where the turbulence, ignition, tritium breeding, neutron damage, and cost problems are solved. Whether driven by the free market or something like the IAEA, NRC, or ITER lab spaces guiding the innovation, the designs must incorporate new ideas.

Perhaps pulsed plasma operation utilizing a plasma confinement time limit or bound, can create a magnetic field from the plasma current that varies in time (pulsed plasma current MHD) that induces a Biot Savart pickup coil current to add to the steam cycle efficiency. In addition to this idea, maybe a real time Hall effect magnetic coil and controlling coil feedback circuit can shape the plasma after initial and sustained heating. Also, pellet injection may stabilize the plasma. Boron-ization of the plasma facing materials could provide a substrate that reduces impurities. There are many more problems in turbulence and ignition that need to be solved as well.

General Physics, in conjunction with scientists around the globe, are working to develop the expertise and modeling (MOOSE, CATIA add-on macros) for the production of a DEMO (Demonstration reactor) design. A stellarator tokamak hybrid was suggested by the Theory of Fusion Plasma conference in 2024 in Varenna, Italy. It was proposed that this design, like W7X, could guide the next generation of plants. General Physics supports the idea of the DEMO tokamak utilizing parts of the stellarator tokamak hybrid with pixelated (THEA) magnetic shaping, ITER controlling coil designs, and real time feedback magnetic MHD optimization and shaping.

Fusion is the power source of the stars, and before the human scientific complex adaptive system develops an anti-matter plasma power plant, traditional DT fusion, with the 14.1 MeV energy per reaction, will be the goal of many physicists, engineers, and scientists working with policymakers to develop something that drives the economy of not only the developed world, but of developing nations that subsume the role of economic supply chain backers and fillers for the traditional economy of the past. By developing a fusion economy, and perhaps a hydrogen economy, the anthropomorphic climate change contribution can be mitigated, advanced jobs can be created, and a new paradigm, which will eventually lead to the anti-matter power paradigm, can be implemented. Fusion ignition will create limitless power and drive a new economy with multilateral supply side economic incentives for more growth.

It is beyond the scope of General Physics' consultants to discuss the strategic direction of the consumption of power in the human race. Everything indicates that progress will result in more abundance and use of resources. It is advanced manufacturing that will lead to fruitful global economic prosperity through the development of flexible specialization in production of energy to create fusion and the ancillary and supporting technologies of the modern era.