A Star in a Bottle: The Quest for Commercial Fusion.
"Exploring why this nuclear fusion breakthrough matters ... Before you blow your fuse and start leaving your nuclear fusion jokes in the comments, there's been a major fusion development we have to talk about and it's kind of a nuclear bombshell ... poor choice of words ... it's big news. It's all about high temperature semiconductors (ie. magnets)."
"On Sept. 5, 2021, for the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped up to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created on Earth."
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The fusion A Star in a Bottle folk are late.
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yvilletom
Level 8
Nov 23, 2021
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Thanks for the video. Will watch The Safire Sun asap.
How long will it take to construct commercially viable reactors? The benefit of having a clearly defined goal is that the process of construction yields insights and inventions of their own. This innovation has the potential to significantly shrink the size of the tokamaks. That enables, potentially, much less cost to develop pilot plants.
racocn8
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Nov 23, 2021
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@racocn8
Targeting completion in 2025.
“The amount of power that is available is really game-changing.” The fuel used to create fusion energy comes from water, and “the Earth is full of water — it’s a nearly unlimited resource. We just have to figure out how to utilize it.”
"Developing the new magnet is seen as the greatest technological hurdle to making that happen; its successful operation now opens the door to demonstrating fusion in a lab on Earth, which has been pursued for decades with limited progress. With the magnet technology now successfully demonstrated, the MIT-CFS collaboration is on track to build the world’s first fusion device that can create and confine a plasma that produces more energy than it consumes. That demonstration device, called SPARC, is targeted for completion in 2025." [news.mit.edu]
@AnonySchmoose It's interesting because the electromagnet uses a superconductor that has to be cooled, probably with liquid nitrogen. The superconductor is tricky because one must formulate a material that can be bent, starting with a brittle ceramic. Then the superconductor works by jamming a huge current through the superconductor to amplify the magnetic field, but because it's a superconductor, minimal heat is generated due to resistance. So much current is applied that the heat must still be drawn off by coolant to maintain the superconducting property. AFAIK
@racocn8
Good video which explains details of MIT's fusion device.
I have been waiting for this for over fifty years. Following each step always hearing that it will be ready in ten years. If they can get this to work we will no need oil, coal, methane, or any other natural resource other than water to make power. Fusing Hydrogen will create power, it should be safe.
dalefvictor
Level 8
Nov 22, 2021
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It's safer than anything we now use..
@dalefvictor @Charlene
Good video which explains details of fusion. Containment of plasma by the magnet is the most difficult part.
Will be a breakthrough and lifesaver
bobwjr
Level 10
Nov 22, 2021
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@bobwjr
Good news when we really need it.
Here's the MIT news from Sept. 8, 2021.
[news.mit.edu]
Way over my pay grade.
ChurchLess
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Nov 22, 2021
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Me too
@ChurchLess @Lorajay
I didn't know much about fusion either, but MIT scientists say it could be a game changer to phase out fossil fuels, which I believe was MIT'S objective for fusion. Containment of plasma by the magnet is the most difficult part. The sub-header for the MIT news article about the success of their fusion invention says: "New superconducting magnet breaks magnetic field strength records, paving the way for practical, commercial, carbon-free power." [news.mit.edu]
Good video.
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