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The World Should Be 100% Powered By Renewable Energy Before Nuclear Fusion Is Commercially Competitive

December 17, 2022 admin clean power, mark z. jacobson, nuclear energy, nuclear fusion, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 04:57:29 +0000

The U.S. Department of Energy announced some big nuclear fusion news this week. It is truly gigantic scientific news, and I don’t intend to downplay the breakthrough at all here. I’m amazed and thrilled U.S. scientists were able to produce net-positive energy for a brief moment in a laser-based nuclear fusion ignition. Though, I think […]

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Fusion Energy Scientist Speaks To CleanTechnica About Fusion Potential

September 22, 2022 admin clean power, INTERVIEWS, nuclear energy, nuclear fusion

Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:30:38 +0000

In August of 2021 at Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California, a nuclear fusion milestone was achieved. Researchers at the lab’s National Ignition Facility created a yield of over 1.3 megajoules. It was the first time the researchers had achieved this yield. Three peer-reviewed papers were published about the fusion research one year later. Typically, […]

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Fusion Power: Watching, Waiting, as Research Continues

August 1, 2018 admin aec, Business, DOE, fusion power, general, GERMANY, h-bomb, hans bethe, History, hydrogen, International, iter, lasers, lawrence livermore national laboratory, magnets, mit, news, Nuclear, nuclear fusion, nuclear technology, r&d, Research and Development, Technology

Cheap and abundant electric power from nuclear fusion—power “too cheap to meter”—has been a dream for more than a half-century. But as time passes, practical fusion appears to be moving further into

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