Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes
This is perhaps an obvious question to some, but I'll ask it anyway: How is the power generated here converted into usable electricity?<p>I know for conventional fission reactors the heat of fission is basically used to run a steam turbine. Given the extreme heat of the plasma, and that it must be magnetically suspended so that it doesn't even touch the sides of the containment, how is that heat transferred to some other medium to generate electricity?