Sentences with phrase «clean fusion energy»

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It's called the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) and could be the fusion reactor to lead a new era of clean energy.

Nuclear fusion has long tantalized humanity as a potential energy panacea — a fuel source that could prove to be cheap, inexhaustible, and clean.

It's interesting, then, to see some new money going into the great white hope for clean energy, nuclear fusion — from an oil company, no less.

Scientists can accept the verdict of management experts or can proceed on their quest and revolutionize the world with limitless, clean sources of solar and fusion energy.

They said they had achieved nuclear fusion at room temperature using a simple tabletop device, thus creating a revolutionary clean energy source they called «cold fusion.»

Comprehending and reducing turbulence will facilitate the development of fusion as a safe, clean and abundant source of energy for generating electricity from power plants around the world.

Governments and private - sector start - ups are still trying to wrangle thermonuclear fusion — the process that lights up stars and ignites hydrogen bombs — for clean energy, with limited progress (SN: 2/6/16, p. 18).

Nuclear fusion is the energy source that powers the sun; if channeled correctly, it could become a major source of clean energy here on Earth.

Such experiments are usually geared toward harnessing fusion for clean energy applications.

A new theory may explain the notorious cold fusion experiment from two decades ago, reigniting hopes of a clean - energy breakthrough.

His theory also deflates the hope among some researchers that sonoluminescence generates enough pressure and heat to produce nuclear fusion, a potential source of cheap, clean energy.

For decades scientists have sought to generate clean energy by instigating the kind of sustained nuclear fusion reactions that power the sun.

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).

FOOTHILL RANCH, CALIFORNIA — In a suburban industrial park south of Los Angeles, researchers have taken a significant step toward mastering nuclear fusion — a process that could provide abundant, cheap, and clean energy.

Achieving fusion — nuclear reactions that have the potential to produce copious, clean energy — requires heating hydrogen fuel to more than 100 million degrees Celsius, causing it to become an ionized gas or plasma.

TINY stars are being created by the world's largest and most energetic lasers in the hope of tapping what could be a relatively clean energy source — nuclear fusion.

The solution used a new theory based on fluid flow and will help scientists in the quest to create gases with temperatures over a hundred million degrees and harness them to create clean, endless, carbon - free energy with nuclear fusion.

Scientists have long dreamed of harnessing nuclear fusion — the power plant of the stars — for a safe, clean and virtually unlimited energy supply.

«Scientists have long dreamed of harnessing nuclear fusion, the power plant of the star, for a safe, clean and virtually unlimited energy supply.

Usually deeply divided along party lines, the subcommittee came together to lavish praise on ITER, with representative Lamar Smith (R — TX), chair of the full committee, and Representative Eric Swalwell (D — CA), the ranking member on the subcommittee, agreeing that ITER was, in Swalwell's words, «absolutely essential to proving that magnetically confined fusion can be a viable clean energy source.»

ITER, scheduled to be in operation in the 2020s, carries high hopes that its outcome will eventually lead to the construction of plasma fusion power plants that will bring this highly efficient, renewable, and clean energy to the commercial market.

Enabling a world powered by safe, clean and plentiful fusion energy while leading discoveries in plasma science and technology.

Hannah Willett of Physics at York uses the Binding Blocks chart to explain the process of nuclear fusion, and how creating «mini-suns» on earth could be an important clean energy source for the future.

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.

In a review of the state of the research in this field, Rochester physicist Riccardo Betti concludes the goal of realizing abundant, clean energy from inertial confinement fusion remains elusive, despite recent significant progress.

The path to creating sustainable fusion energy as a clean, abundant and affordable source of electric energy has been filled with «aha moments» that have led to a point in history when the international fusion experiment, ITER, is poised to produce more fusion energy than it uses when it is completed in 15 to 20 years, said Ed Synakowski, associate director of Science for Fusion Energy Sciences at the U.S. Department of Energy energy as a clean, abundant and affordable source of electric energy has been filled with «aha moments» that have led to a point in history when the international fusion experiment, ITER, is poised to produce more fusion energy than it uses when it is completed in 15 to 20 years, said Ed Synakowski, associate director of Science for Fusion Energy Sciences at the U.S. Department of Energy energy has been filled with «aha moments» that have led to a point in history when the international fusion experiment, ITER, is poised to produce more fusion energy than it uses when it is completed in 15 to 20 years, said Ed Synakowski, associate director of Science for Fusion Energy Sciences at the U.S. Department of Energy energy than it uses when it is completed in 15 to 20 years, said Ed Synakowski, associate director of Science for Fusion Energy Sciences at the U.S. Department of Energy Energy Sciences at the U.S. Department of Energy Energy (DOE).

Dubbed the compact fusion reactor (CFR), the device is conceptually safer, cleaner and more powerful than much larger, current nuclear systems that rely on fission, the process of splitting atoms to release energy.

NSTX - U at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) will allow researchers around the world to explore how to create fusion reactions — essentially creating a star on Earth — with the goal of bringing clean, reliable, safe, and virtually unlimited energy to the world.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is dedicated to developing fusion as a clean and abundant source of energy and to advancing the frontiers of plasma scEnergy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is dedicated to developing fusion as a clean and abundant source of energy and to advancing the frontiers of plasma scenergy and to advancing the frontiers of plasma science.

The tours are aimed at explaining fusion energy and PPPL's role as a national and international leader in developing fusion energy as a clean, safe and affordable source of electric energy.

Nuclear fusion is being looked to as a potentially limitless source of clean energy, created by the same core processes inside the sun.

«An almost limitless supply of clean energy has been brought one step closer to reality after a team in the US set a new record for nuclear fusion.

Today, most alternative energy technologies that are discussed — wind, solar, tides, waves, clean coal, nuclear fission and, perhaps one day, fusion — are useful only for making electricity.

Thus it makes pragmatic sense to me to focus our attention on a medium term adaption policy, whilst investing heavily in cleaner cheap sources of baseload energy, such as thorium fission and gen4 fission reactors and, in the slightly longer term, nuclear fusion reactors.

There are various types of technologies that can play significant roles in mitigating climate change, including energy efficiency improvements throughout the energy system (especially at the end use side); solar, wind, nuclear fission and fusion and geothermal, biomass and clean fossil technologies, including carbon capture and storage; energy from waste; hydrogen production from non-fossil energy sources and fuel cells (Pacala and Socolow, 2004; IEA, 2006b).

* Make solar energy economical * Provide energy from fusion * Develop carbon sequestration methods * Manage the nitrogen cycle * Provide access to clean water * Restore and improve urban infrastructure * Advance health informatics * Engineer better medicines * Reverse - engineer the brain * Prevent nuclear terror * Secure cyberspace * Enhance virtual reality * Advance personalized learning * Engineer the tools of scientific discovery

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.

Fusion remains the holy grail of clean energy research, because the fusion reaction generates new elements that are not radioactive, unlike nuclear fission which leaves us with hazardous fuel wastes that require generations of management.

Controlled nuclear fusion is a dream for scientists and advocates of clean energy.