Showing posts with label fusion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fusion. Show all posts
Friday, May 4, 2012

Has Physicits Crack The Fusion Mystery

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Plasma chamber: This experimental fusion reactor at MIT could test the new theory. Mike Garrett, MIT Physicists Crack Fusion Mystery -- Tech...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Is Nuclear Fusion Possible?

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A prototype of the nuclear fusion system that relies on coils and compressing magnetic fields to produce energy. CREDIT: Derek Lamppa Nuclea...
Monday, January 2, 2012

Is This The Year of Cold Fusion?

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2012: The Year of Cold Fusion? -- Forbes Well, there goes 2011, a year that was, to say the least, a mixed bag. In the tech world it has bee...
Monday, February 1, 2010

World's Most Powerful Laser To Trigger Fusion Reaction This Year

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From The Telegraph: A pivotal step in the march towards fusion power, the ''holy grail'' of sustainable clean energy, could ...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

Scientists Set For Nuclear Fusion Fuel Switch-On

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From The Independent: A pivotal step in the march towards fusion power, the "Holy Grail" of sustainable clean energy, could be tak...

Levitating Magnet May Yield New Approach To Clean Energy

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The Levitated Dipole Experiment (LDX) reactor is housed inside a 16-foot-diameter steel structure in a building on the MIT campus that also ...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

Experiments Meet Requirements For Fusion Ignition; New Physics Effect Achieves Symmetrical Target Compression

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This artist's rendering shows a NIF target pellet (the white ball) inside a hohlraum capsule with laser beams entering through openings ...

Fusion Power A Step Closer After Giant Laser Blast

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A pointed "target positioner" (right) in the National Ignition Facility's target chamber held the pencil-eraser-size cylinder ...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

Levitating Magnet Brings Nuclear Fusion Closer To Reality

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The Levitated Dipole Experiment (LDX) reactor is housed inside a 16-foot-diameter steel structure in a building on the MIT campus that also ...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Nuclear Fusion Is The Future

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James Hansen Photo: PA From The Telegraph: The Copenhagen Summit: Could a new nuclear fusion process allow us to escape the whole carbon t...
Sunday, December 6, 2009

Will Fusion Fade ... Or Finally Flare Up?

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May 31: A video from the National Ignition Facility explains what the super-laser experiment is designed to do. NIF / LLNL From MSNBC: The h...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

High-performance Plasmas May Make Reliable, Efficient Fusion Power A Reality

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Artist's rendering of a tokamak plasma. The plasma is confined by the combination of strong magnetic field in the toroidal direction (ar...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

The Fusion Illusion -- A Commentary

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From The New Atlantis: To hear President Barack Obama tell it, we need to fundamentally overhaul the way we produce, deliver, and consume en...
Monday, October 12, 2009

Building A Second Sun: Take $10 Billion, Add Coconuts

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From New Scientist: THE balmy south of France has always been a magnet for sun worshippers. So it is perhaps fitting that here, not far from...
Thursday, July 2, 2009

Igniting Fusion

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Ground zero: A circular access port affords a glimpse into a 10-meter-diameter target chamber where, in the coming months, powerful lasers ...
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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

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This is the view inside the doughnut-shaped JET reactor, the largest fusion device on Earth. During a reaction, nuclear fuels are held away ...
Monday, June 1, 2009

An Update On What’s Happening With Fusion Research.

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From Classical Values: Nature News is reporting that the ITER fusion experiment is in big trouble. Very big trouble. It is way over budget, ...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

California Fires Up Laser Fusion Machine

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From The Guardian: Success at National Ignition Facility could pave the way for commercial laser fusion power stations and provide a solutio...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Powerful Ideas: Fusing Atoms Just Might Work

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Artist's rendering of a NIF target pellet being struck by multiple laser beams, which inside compress and heat the target to the necessa...
Monday, April 13, 2009

World's Highest-Energy Laser To Create Mini-Stars (Pictures)

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To produce the temperatures and pressures needed for fusion, the facility will aim all of its 192 laser beams simultaneously on a hydrogen t...