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Extreme Tech By Graham Templeton on November 3, 2015 If we are to continue advancing as a species and consuming more and more power per person, then there are only two possible endpoints for human power production, and they’re both fusion. Either we figure out how to soak up and use a large portion of … Read more
Phys.org November 3, 2015 Oxford University researchers have developed a new method that makes it possible to study whether the deterioration of nuclear fusion reactor materials in the face of extreme radiation may cause catastrophic thermal failure. Nuclear fusion is an attractive option for creating sustainable energy, in principle using the same reactions found at … 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
Forbes Carmen Drahl Oct. 15, 2015 Today, the future is now— for fans of the Back to the Future trilogy, at least. October 21, 2015 marks the day when Marty McFly and Emmett “Doc” Brown touched down in their DeLorean time machine, flying in from 30 years in the past. “Back to the Future”‘s DeLorean … 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
tek22.com Oct. 24, 2015 by Darren Beyer If you found your way to this site, then you probably know the Millennium Falcon, the iconic spaceship depicted in the Star Wars films. The Stellarator is likely just slightly less well known, though bears an uncanny resemblance, as pointed out in this AAAS Science Magazine article. In … 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
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
Oak Ridge National Lab 22-Oct-2015 Teams are developing tools to monitor and control ITER plasma Newswise — ITER, the world’s largest tokamak now under construction in France, will have over 60 diagnostic systems installed to enable plasma control, optimize plasma performance, and support machine protection¬. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in … Read more
ScienceMag By Daniel Clery | 21 October 2015 If you’ve heard of fusion energy, you’ve probably heard of tokamaks. These doughnut-shaped devices are meant to cage ionized gases called plasmas in magnetic fields while heating them to the outlandish temperatures needed for hydrogen nuclei to fuse. Tokamaks are the workhorses of fusion—solid, symmetrical, and relatively … Read more