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[-] techt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Wait, how can this possibly not involve a turbine? Maybe there's a semantics thing I'm missing or we disagree on, but what's turning the kinetic energy into rotational mechanical energy to spin the generator if not a turbine? Or are you saying the turbine is incorporated, as in a turbine generator?

Just so we're seeing the same picture:

https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/hydroelectric-power-how-it-works#overview

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, not the right words. I intended to say no steam turbine.
Instead of turning energy into heat into turbinable fluid flow in form of steam, they directly use turbinable fluid flow.
The difference is really the lack of steps up to the turbine.

[-] techt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ahh gotcha, thanks for clarifying! And I agree, very cool stuff.

[-] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The way I understood it, the system used electromagnets to create a magnetic containment field to drive the fuel together to create the fusion event. That same magnetic containment field would experience a force from the produced charged particles. That force would produce a current in the electromagnets. That current would be stored in capacitors as a voltage which would be used as the energy source for the next magnetic compression cycle. The excess energy stored in the capacitor after the compression would be 'generated' energy.

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

It's nlt mentioned in the text very clearly, but look at the link.
They were confused about what I said for hydro and wind, which I have now rewritten.

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