Sentences with phrase «about nuclear fusion»

If students reveal in an interest inventory that they enjoy working with digital media, leverage that interest in a science class by using new media to build content literacy — for example, what about Einstein's greatest hits playlist, a digital story about nuclear fusion, a video game that simulates a chemical reaction, or a web page that illustrates the formation of the earth?

«Getting there, if you think about nuclear fusion, is going to take some moments of discovery, some «aha» moments,» Synakowski said in his talk, «Reimagining the Possible: Scientific Transformations Shaping the Path Towards Fusion Energy.»

SiliconRepublic ran a story about nuclear fusion that quotes Jon Menard, the head of research for PPPL's National Spherical Torus Experiment - Upgrade.

In 1931 he gave specific figures about nuclear fusion as a source of energy far superior to nuclear fission.

Not exact matches

Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).

While at the conference Kessel gave a plenary talk about the Fusion Nuclear Science Facility (FNSF), a proposed next step in the U.S. fusion program.

When the temperature reaches about four million degrees Fahrenheit, nuclear fusion begins, tremendous amounts of energy are produced, and the star begins to shine.

The promise of fusion eliminates the need to burn fossil fuels, accumulate greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, warm the Earth, and worry about nuclear waste — instead, providing clean energy that uses ordinary seawater as a fuel.

The temperature at its core has been estimated about 15,000,000 K. Energy is produced in its core by nuclear fusion, converts hydrogen atoms and releases huge amounts of energy.

This fascinating documentary about the quest for nuclear fusion as a silver bullet for the world's energy thirst is at the same time informative and entertaining as it dives into both the insane and insanely expensive ways of achieving the technology (see the trailer for a taste).

I have followed the news about fusion nuclear since elementary school.

If the mix of energy technologies cheap, powerful and acceptable enough to bring this shift about includes one or more of solar, nuclear fusion or nuclear fission (and who, seriously, thinks it won't?)

Meanwhile TreeHugger favourite Bill McDonough is all about nuclear reactors, he just thinks that the big yellow fusion - reactor sitting in our sky is superior to anything we could come up with.

The addition of heat from fossil fuel derived, nuclear and fusion energy can be thought about in a straightforward manner.