Electrostatic confinement
Confinement by electric rather than magnetic fields.
In the record: 3 companies, 0 laboratories and programmes, 1 device and 0 reactor designs. These counts include Inertial electrostatic confinement.
Not yet in the record for this approach: reactor designs or measurements.
Related approaches
Broader: Fusion
Narrower:
- Inertial electrostatic confinement Electric fields rather than magnetic ones confine the ions. Simple to build and well proven as a neutron source; net energy is a different matter.
Companies 3
Includes companies recorded under a narrower approach, named beside each.
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Avalanche Energy · Inertial electrostatic confinement -
Energy Matter Conversion Corporation -
Horne Technologies · Inertial electrostatic confinement
Devices 1
Operating devices first, then those being built or planned, then those shut down, suspended or cancelled.
- HORNE HYBRID REACTOR Under construction Horne Technologies · US · Inertial electrostatic confinement
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