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What does resetting this look like? How do you get lithium to re-solidify as a "wall" in the shape and place desired?


For this prototype, I understood that they're using solid lithium liners. They have a casting die to make the lithium wall, so this is strictly a single shot + long reset type of thing.

I believe their proposal for an operational system is that they use a liquid lithium wall which they keep spun up for form a liner. This liquid lithium is also supposed to be their primary working fluid, so it'll be kept liquefied and continuously circulating.




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