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COMEDY (cont'd):"Lab hits milestone on long road to fusion power" - SteveG - 01-27-2022
not comedy? yeah sure==> The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) was an experimental tokamak built at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) circa 1980 and entering service in 1982. TFTR was designed with the explicit goal of reaching scientific breakeven, the point where the heat being released from the fusion reactions in the plasma is equal or greater than the heating being supplied to the plasma by external devices to warm it up.
Burning plasma achieved in inertial fusion
Researchers achieve milestone on path toward nuclear fusion energy
https://apnews.com/article/science-fusion-energy-lawrence-livermore-a3c1ecbb738640b0a2e384dc80b8dd07
With 192 lasers and temperatures more than three times hotter than the center of the sun, scientists hit — at least for a fraction of a second — a key milestone on the long road toward nearly pollution-free fusion energy.
Researchers at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California were able to spark a fusion reaction that briefly sustained itself — a major feat because fusion requires such high temperatures and pressures that it easily fizzles out.
The ultimate goal, still years away, is to generate power the way the sun generates heat, by smooshing hydrogen atoms so close to each other that they combine into helium, which releases torrents of energy.
A team of more than 100 scientists published the results of four experiments that achieved what is known as a burning plasma in Wednesday’s journal Nature. With those results, along with preliminary results announced last August from follow-up experiments, scientists say they are on the threshold of an even bigger advance: ignition. That’s when the fuel can continue to “burn” on its own and produce more energy than what’s needed to spark the initial reaction.
“We’re very close to that next step,” said study lead author Alex Zylstra, an experimental physicist at Livermore.
Re: COMEDY (cont'd):"Lab hits milestone on long road to fusion power" - Acer - 01-27-2022
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Re: COMEDY (cont'd):"Lab hits milestone on long road to fusion power" - srf1957 - 01-27-2022
Only 50 more years and we will have 2 seconds of fusion .
Re: COMEDY (cont'd):"Lab hits milestone on long road to fusion power" - Speedy - 01-27-2022
srf1957 wrote:
Only 50 more years and we will have 2 seconds of fusion .
Yes, but will it be cold fusion!
Re: COMEDY (cont'd):"Lab hits milestone on long road to fusion power" - Racer X - 01-27-2022
If it take 5 more decades, I can assure you, not much will be cold around here X(
Re: COMEDY (cont'd):"Lab hits milestone on long road to fusion power" - MikeF - 01-27-2022
Who knows what could be solved if people actually spent their brainpower and resources on real problems.
Re: COMEDY (cont'd):"Lab hits milestone on long road to fusion power" - gadje - 01-27-2022
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Re: COMEDY (cont'd):"Lab hits milestone on long road to fusion power" - Lux Interior - 01-27-2022
"Fusion is the power source of the future, and it always will be!"
- Old Nuclear Joke
Re: COMEDY (cont'd):"Lab hits milestone on long road to fusion power" - Lew Zealand - 01-27-2022
gadje wrote:
you want to see Comedy?
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