The continued shrinking of accelerators has had me brainstorming on a compact nanofusion approach for awhile
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B5maRx9w0ahQTqSe6UZ56rd0...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B5maRx9w0ahQTqSe6UZ56rd0...
Another limitation with anything micro-fabricated is that the resulting radiation from fusion working is going to knock atoms out of their lattices, degrading chips in direct proportion to total (lifetime) energy output.
Agreed the micro architecture and energies involved are.. challenging
I guess my thinking is that most of the assumptions that might have precluded small scales may have radically changed
I'm thinking of the lattice as more of a staging area for a downrange scatter, so no local accumulation of the energies. But no idea how practical that may be