{"id":194905,"date":"2024-08-21T21:29:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T02:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/quenching-the-intense-heat-of-a-fusion-plasma-may-require-a-well-placed-liquid-metal-evaporator"},"modified":"2024-08-21T21:29:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T02:29:20","slug":"quenching-the-intense-heat-of-a-fusion-plasma-may-require-a-well-placed-liquid-metal-evaporator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/quenching-the-intense-heat-of-a-fusion-plasma-may-require-a-well-placed-liquid-metal-evaporator","title":{"rendered":"Quenching the intense heat of a fusion plasma may require a well-placed liquid metal evaporator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quenching-the-intense-heat-of-a-fusion-plasma-may-require-a-well-placed-liquid-metal-evaporator3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The researchers originally thought the lithium would be best housed in a \u201cmetal box\u201d with an opening at the top. The plasma would flow into the gap so the lithium could dissipate the heat of the plasma before reaching the metal walls. Now, the researchers say a cave\u2014geometrically just the inner half of a box\u2014full of lithium vapor would be simpler than a box. The difference is more than just semantics: It impacts where the lithium travels and how effectively it dissipates heat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor years, we thought we needed a full, four-sided box, but now we know we can make something much simpler,\u201d said Emdee. Data from new simulations pointed them in a different direction when the research team realized they could contain the lithium just as well if they cut their box in half. \u201cNow we call it the cave,\u201d Emdee said.<\/p>\n<p>In the cave configuration, the device would have walls on the top, bottom and side closest to the center of the tokamak. This optimizes the path for the evaporating lithium, setting it on a better course for capturing the most heat from the private flux region while minimizing the complexity of the device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers originally thought the lithium would be best housed in a \u201cmetal box\u201d with an opening at the top. The plasma would flow into the gap so the lithium could dissipate the heat of the plasma before reaching the metal walls. Now, the researchers say a cave\u2014geometrically just the inner half of a box\u2014full [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}