With all the news about German and Korean fusion reactors I thought people might be interested in various ideas people have had over the years about how to generate electricity from a fusion reactor without requiring steam and turbines.
knew an engineer who worked in a butter factory, making ghee. ghee is heated, clarified butter. it has really tight temperature constraints. too high: tastes burned. to low? solidifies. His life was a nightmare. "that didn't work. Lets strip all these greasy pipes down, and get the thick sludge out, and try again while the hired-help disposes of 10 tonnes of semi-liquified, congealing butterfat"
