Inertial confinement

ICF

Compressing fuel so fast that its own inertia holds it together long enough to burn: nanoseconds, not seconds. Every ICF approach shares the same open problem beyond ignition itself: repeating a shot several times a second at low enough cost per shot to run a power plant, which no driver has yet demonstrated.

Organisations and devices by approach: Inertial confinement on the technology page

Vocabulary id

approach:inertial-confinement

Scheme

Technology approaches

Records using it

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