But you are talking about volumetric efficiency - the portions of the sun where fusion is actually taking place are far more efficient than that surely?
I always believed they were trying to duplicate the suns core, not the whole ball of gas.
I always believed they were trying to duplicate the suns core, not the whole ball of gas.
Much smaller - still pretty large, but doable. Your energy output in comparison to capturing solar energy is now 3 times as much rather than 1/20 as much.
Which works out to 290x the energy density of the core. Direct comparisons of the Continent vessel vs the volume of the sun are even higher.