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Stanford Social Innovation Review by By Rachel Pritzker Quick: Is energy use good or bad? If you’re like most people, you probably answered that it’s bad. In recent decades, government policy, environmental advocacy, and popular culture have focused on an agenda of energy reduction; we are told to consume less energy (drive less, turn off … Read more

Justin Ball, Felix I. Parra, and Michael Barnes Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3NP, United Kingdom Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon OX14 3DB, United Kingdom E-mail: Justin.Ball@physics.ox.ac.uk Abstract. A particular translational symmetry of the local nonlinear δf gyrokinetic model is demonstrated analytically and verified numerically. … Read more

Business Insider Jessica Orwig Oct. 30, 2015 For more than 60 years, scientists have dreamed of a clean, inexhaustible energy source in the form of nuclear fusion. And they’re still dreaming. But thanks to the efforts of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, experts hope that might soon change. Last year, after 1.1 million … Read more

Cantech Letter OCTOBER 30, 2015 BY TERRY DAWES General Fusion, a fusion reactor developer based in Burnaby, B.C., is one of several companies profiled for the cover feature of the November 2 issue of Time magazine, written by Lev Grossman, focusing on fusion energy with the headline “Unlimited Energy. For everyone. Forever. Fusion: It Might … Read more

Inc.com BY WILL YAKOWICZ Some iconic entrepreneurs have made big bets on companies trying to develop reactors that would produce massive amounts of clean energy. Getty Images Nuclear fusion holds the promise of clean, endless power for everything from cars to homes to entire cities. Unfortunately, after decades of research, government-funded scientists all over the … Read more

Next Big Future October 26, 2015 The Tri-alpha Energy nuclear fusion reactor prototype has been feature in recent Time magazine and New York Times artices. Tri Alpha’s reactor is very different from the towering tokamaks that dominate the fusion skyline, or the supervillain lasers of the NIF. You could think of it as a massive … Read more

NY Times By DINO GRANDONIOCT. 25, 2015 Michl Binderbauer of Tri Alpha Energy, a fusion start-up. Credit Emily Berl for The New York Times A group of start-ups is promising a new and virtually unlimited source of power, one that produces none of the gases scientists say contribute to global warming. The only problem? A … Read more

Economist Oct 24th 2015 Research into fusion has gone down a blind alley, but a means of escape may now be at hand IN THE winter of 1968 three British physicists went to Moscow to examine a machine called a tokamak. This fusion reactor was a newly devised competitor to America’s approach to fusion, known … Read more

HGPU.org Bei Wang, Stephane Ethier, William Tang, Khaled Ibrahim, Kamesh Madduri, Samuel Williams, Leonid Oliker Princeton Institute of Computational Science and Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA arXiv:1510.05546 [cs.DC], (19 Oct 2015) The Gyrokinetic Toroidal Code at Princeton (GTC-P) is a highly scalable and portable particle-in-cell (PIC) code. It solves the 5D Vlasov-Poisson equation featuring … Read more

Vancouver Sun BY RANDY SHORE OCTOBER 18, 2015 General Fusion takes a low-tech approach to a safe, clean form of nuclear energy Watch the video report on the Vancouver Sun web site. Burnaby’s General Fusion appears to inching close to a technology that could supply the world with abundant, clean energy from nuclear fusion. This … Read more