Comments by "kazedcat" (@kazedcat) on "A New Way to Achieve Nuclear Fusion: Helion" video.

  1. Theorithical limit in charging and discharging of the capacitor. It is not 100% but very close to it. Then there are loses from extracting energy from the plasma. Overall I would guess they can recover 80% of the heat energy in the plasma. The majority of the losses should be the heat loss in their magnetic coil. I don't know how efficient superconducting coils could be. Also He3 breeder reactor would likely not break even.
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  2.  @HyperManSP  Machine use as breeder reactor should have ablative lining integrated into the design. If you relax the requirement for magnetic confinement because you have no intention of extracting energy directly from the plasma then you can design a more modular reactor with swappable ablative lining. A monthly maintenance that would take 1 week to swap ablative is practical for He3 breeding. It is okay for breeder reactor to have intensive downtime.
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  3. Tandem reactor might reduce the number of capacitor but you will still need lots of power electronics to control everything and most of the losses will be on the power electronics. It is also possible to store energy on the rotating plasma vortex.
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