Sentences with phrase «breakthroughs in fusion»
ASP has proposed a fusion «Apollo Program» that would lead to significant breakthroughs in fusion over the next decade if implemented.
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When a widely reported breakthrough in «cold fusion» was revealed to be a hoax 21 years ago, it set back the credibility, if not the momentum, of one of mankind's greatest and longest - running research efforts.
The breakthrough, he adds, has been an evolutionary one in the development of the controls needed to manipulate the magnetic fields to the temperatures (millions of degrees) and pressures in which fusion happens.
Lockheed Martin Corp said on Wednesday it had made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, and the first reactors, small enough to fit on the back of a truck, could be ready in a decade.
Such a breakthrough would show that inertial fusion, at least in principle, is a possibility for future power stations.
The breakthrough is in magnetic confinement fusion, in which hydrogen is heated until it is a plasma 10 times hotter than the centre of the sun, and held in place by strong magnetic fields until fusion reactions occur.
The findings range from a breakthrough for stabilizing fusion plasmas to good news for the international ITER project going up in France to new thoughts about the chances of life on planets circling nearby stars.
«Her latest series is a breakthrough: these sumptuous, all - over abstractions built of mind - bogglingly intricate details are oceanic in their fusion of decorative and labor intensity.
Not just in laboratories to have some great breakthrough on a fusion reactor, but also, as Harish Hande, this energy entrepreneur in India, has made a breakthrough with a financial model for how to go into a village and bring in enough solar power so they can run their sewing machines and get less poor.
As fusion becomes more technically viable, it's time to assess whether it's worth the money because breakthroughs in the lab don't guarantee success in the marketplace.
Although no breakthrough has happened in nuclear fusion since it was hailed as the clean energy source of the future in the 1970s, there are reasons to be optimistic now, writes Scott L. Montgomery of the University of Washington.