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IPP November 30, 2015 Next week: start with helium plasma planned / hydrogen plasmas are to follow in 2016 With the generation of the first plasma the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device is scheduled to go into operation on time in December 2015 at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald/Germany. The experiments … Read more
myidst.com29 November 2015 Many energy experts believe that nuclear fusion is the only real ‘solution’ to global warming that is capable of producing unlimited supplies of cheap, clean, safe and sustainable electricity. The reactor’s fuel is limitless, hydrogen the element used to create the fusion reaction is the most abundant atom in the universe and … Read more
Fanders Today Senne Starckx, Nov. 20, 2015 A science show that aims to pique students’ interest in nuclear fusion recently returned to the University of Antwerp for the fifth consecutive year Do you have a teenager who is bored with traditional physics, Newton’s laws and those same-old electronic circuits? Then nuclear fusion might be just … Read more
November 20, 2015 Fusion power has been making a lot of progress lately. That doesn’t necessarily mean any one approach has gotten a whole lot closer to its end goal of useful ignition and net energy production, but that many new, innovative attempts at achieving that same goal have all advanced to a point of … Read more
European Energy Review 16 November 2015 By Dr David Kingham A hot plasma in the START spherical tokamak built at Culham Laboratory in the 1990s. START set a world record for the ratio of plasma pressure to magnetic pressure which still stands today. Europe has a great history in fusion research. It was the Englishman … Read more
Eureka Magazine Justin Cunningham 14 July 2015 The challenge to produce clean and sustainable power for future generations is an intimidating one. While fusion power offers the tantalising possibility, it is tomorrow’s technology that is at least 30 years away… and it seems always will be. In all reality, however, it will be far more … Read more
SPIE Heinrich Hora 14 July 2015 A laser-driven technique to ignite hydrogen-boron fuel offers the possibility of nuclear fusion for clean, sustainable energy generation. For more than 70 years, scientists have sought to harness energy from nuclear fusion as the ultimate sustainable power source. Initially, they considered fusion of heavy and very heavy hydrogen isotopes … Read more
IEEE Spectrum By Mark Anderson 18 Nov 2015 Physicists pin their hopes on new magnets and fast lasers Focus FusionClean Lines- The pure tungsten electrodes inside LPP’s dense-plasma-focus device resist the vaporization that would add unwanted atoms to the fusion reactions- The past few months have proved that hope for nuclear fusion as the ultimate … Read more
Members of Tom’s family for the last hundred years have had “science in their blood.” Tom’s great grandfather was Sir Thomas E. Thorpe, a very highly esteemed chemist in the U.K. From 1951 to 1968 Tom’s father, Thomas E. Thorpe, taught physics at West Phoenix High School (WPHS.) WPHS earned the reputation of having one … Read more
How to create Sun on Earth? What are the principles that ITER and Wendelstein 7-X operate on?