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Sydney Morning Herald December 14, 2015 Powering our planet using the kind of energy produced by the sun is a dream that may come true sooner than expected. The conversion of hydrogen to helium in the sun offers solutions to Earth’s energy problems. Photo: The Age The long-held dream of producing power from nuclear fusion, … Read more

Nanocomputer.com December 10, 2015 Fusion power is the Holy Grail of energy production – seen by some as a silver bullet for a carbon-neutral future. The failure of the multi-billion dollar ITER project to produce reactor relevant fusion has disappointed scientists and environmentalists. But a batch of small firms like Tokamak Energy believes they’re close … Read more

BBC 11 December 2015 The Wendelstein 7-X machine’s plasma – but nuclear fusion is still years away A German nuclear fusion experiment has produced a special super-hot gas which scientists hope will eventually lead to clean, cheap energy. The helium plasma – a cloud of loose, charged particles – lasted just a tenth of a … Read more

Phys.org December 10, 2015 Scientists on December 10, 2015 reported a landmark success at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, where physicists generated a superheated helium plasma in a vacuum vessel for one-tenth of a second Scientists in Germany said Thursday they had reached a milestone in a quest to derive energy … Read more

IPP December 10, 2015 A successful start with helium plasma / hydrogen plasma to follow at the beginning of 2016 On 10th December 2015 the first helium plasma was produced in the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald. After more than a year of technical preparations … Read more

Fortune.com Matthew Heimer DECEMBER 8, 2015 Billionaire investors are speeding up the pace of energy innovation. Tri-Alpha Energy in Irvine, Calif., has reportedly raised $140 million. Photo: Courtesy of Tri-Alpha Energy The staff of Fortune recently assembled its predictions for 2016. Here’s one of our forecasts. Nuclear fusion has long tantalized humanity as a potential … Read more

SBS 6 DEC 2015 Open in a full-sized window As conventional clean power options such as wind and solar energy take focus at climate discussions in Paris, scientists around the world continue to work on a more ambitious solution to lowering emissions from energy production – nuclear fusion. For three decades, scientists from a coalition … Read more

International Business Times Maria Gallucci, December 03 2015 Osamu Motojima, the general director of the nuclear fusion project ITER from July 2010 to March 2015, poses with a poster about the project in Cadarache, France, July 28, 2010. Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images On a sprawling campus in southern France, a revolutionary kind of power plant is … Read more

jobbank Frist 24. januar 2016 DTU Physics at the Technical University of Denmark invites applications for a postdoc position in the section Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy (PPFE). The PPFE section leads the Danish participation in the European fusion research activities. We operate and exploit a sophisticated diagnostic at the ASDEX Upgrade experiment. We develop … Read more

Discover Magazine By Tim Folger | January 26, 2011 | Republished here Nov. 30, 2015 It is the energy source that could change the world. It has eluded every effort to master it. But Glen Wurden thinks he knows how to tame the heart of the sun. The Shiva Star facility, located at the Kirtland … Read more