fusion power, Tag

Apparently all you need to do to ensure "the creation of highly skilled jobs and driving growth into our industrial heartlands" is to create planning guidelines for nuclear fusion plants.

Several U.S.-based private sector projects are under way, including those reliant on stellarators rather than tokamaks, but none have confined plasma for anything near 18 minutes, and there are huge questions about the supply...

If Norm is as advertised, it will accelerate the pathway to commercial hydrogen-boron fusion – a safe, clean, and virtually limitless energy source.

Big tech pushing back on accusations of being AI obsessed climate wreckers.

Furlong added, “What Detroit was for the global automobile industry in the 1950s, what Houston is today in the global oil and gas sector … I can see Wisconsin being the global hub for the fusion industry in the 21st Century.”...

By Macskelek - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Like all gee-whiz moonbeams-to-cucumbers notions, this granddaddy of them all is irremediably failing, at prodigious cost to us all.

With each passing decade, this record-breaking monument to big international science looks less and less like a cathedral—and more like a mausoleum.

The 2025 planned date to create a plasma has been set back for "months, even years".

So the DOE is offering money to AI researchers, in the hope that the magic of AI can help make the magic of nuclear fusion a reality.

An American first on a par with the historical significance of the moon landing - scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have exceeded fusion break even.

Are greens replacing fantasies of energy sources which don't work, with fantasies of energy sources which don't exist?

Fusion power plants will eventually replace most conventional power plants and related large-scale energy infrastructure that are still so dominant today...

Inertial confinement fusion researchers have claimed a near break even experimental nuclear fusion burn, in which energy produced by the fusion reaction was comparable to the energy injected to initiate the burn.

Is there hope for commercially viable fusion power? Yes, because other “magnetic bottles” and fusion fuel cycles exist. The related physics is much more difficult, but we won’t know if any of these options are workable...

Now is the time to go all-in on decarbonization. Funding fusion with its breakthrough potential must be part of that effort.