Sentences with phrase «fusion power»

Learning to control plasma in this way might help in the development of better fusion power plants that generate energy by burning massive plasma balls of hydrogen.

To produce practical amounts of fusion power on earth, heavy forms of hydrogen are joined together at high temperature with an accompanying production of heat energy.

As we know, it's an enormously large machine, which is generally considered to be a prototype of a practical fusion power plant.

Despite the great progress made in fusion energy research over the past fifty years, there is still no commercial fusion power plant in existence.

Still, the work is a far cry from making fusion power a reality.

This of course was all abandoned towards the end of the twenty first century what with the ice and as the use of fusion power generation slowly extended around the globe.

Yet fusion power remains a major, well - funded international endeavor.

Indeed, the dream of fusion power now seems certain to neither die or remain merely a dream.

This turbulent transport occurs at comparable levels in both devices, and has long been recognized as a challenge for both in producing fusion power economically.

HOW do you create efficient fusion power with fewer radioactive by - products?

Research at the facility could speed the development of abundant, clean fusion power.

An economically viable fusion power plant would probably have to do 30 times better than break - even.

The research will allow scientists to design reactors that control the plasma far more than other fusion power devices.

After decades of effort, a great deal has been learned and accomplished, but a practical fusion power concept has not been forthcoming.

Let's consider some specific criteria for practical fusion power.

The potential cost of fusion power was not an issue.

Helium - 3 is the much - touted fuel for fusion power plants.

In the meantime, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) asked the National Academies to explore what steps the United States should take to develop fusion power if NIF does eventually achieve ignition.

While the new superconductors do not produce quite a doubling of the field strength, they are strong enough to increase fusion power by about a factor of 10 compared to standard superconducting technology, Sorbom says.

The aim is to carry out work that will speed the effort towards a commercial fusion power reactor after ITER.

«His winning the Fusion Technology Award is especially appropriate since the development of fusion power systems will require individuals with a keen understanding of both the technological implications and the underlying physics.

Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) and his partner Vika (Andrea Riseborough) have been left behind to supervise great floating harvesters that are sucking up what's left of the Earth's oceans in order to generate fusion power on Titan.

NIF has become the world's flagship for ICF, and today's report says its ability to successfully create a burning plasma will be key to taking the next steps toward a prototype fusion power plant.

«We need to understand transport under ion and electron heating to confidently project to future reactors,» he said, «because fusion power plants will have both types of heating.»

While most characteristics of a system tend to vary in proportion to changes in dimensions, the effect of changes in the magnetic field on fusion reactions is much more extreme: The achievable fusion power increases according to the fourth power of the increase in the magnetic field.

It has been working with vendors and representatives of the utilities industry in an ambitious quest to begin populating the world with fusion power plants by the 2030s.

However, given current support for fusion, commercializing fusion power remains decades away.

Via its Laser Ignition Fusion Energy (LIFE) project, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in the United States has a unique double mandate: not only must it prove fusion power can be a viable source of energy — and become a game - changer for the world's energy supply — but it must also plan to commercialize the energy source even before practical fusion energy is a reality.

Optimistic estimates put the first fusion power plants on the grid no sooner than 2040.

These promising new directions include higher fusion power densities, and hence smaller reactors; development of «transport barriers» in the plasma, leading to improved energy confinement and smaller sizes; self - driven plasma currents that permit steady - state operation and low recirculating power; and the development of advanced divertor concepts to provide particle control and heat removal over long reactor lifetimes.

Such engineering challenges will need to be solved before fusion power becomes practical, says Hurricane.

But a good chunk of humanity will survive, and wind up using fusion powered hydrogen ramjets to reach the stars, rather than the vanishing fossil fuels.

I could go on with other downsides and showstoppers associated with tokamak fusion power, but I won't.

And it is plasmas that we have to deal with when we seek to use the energy source of the sun in fusion power plants on Earth.

Helium - 3, embedded in the lunar crust by the solar wind, could be fuel for future fusion power plants.

Find out all about fusion power from the UK Atomic Energy Authority's Web site, including event listings and job opportunities.

And that includes fusion power

With the U.S. under environmental and political stress to provide itself with alternative sources of energy, moving fusion power from the chalkboard to the power grid as quickly as possible was really the only option when the NIF was approved in 1997.

Research and funding has been largely devoted to two other potential methods of attaining fusion power, inertial or laser fusion and magnetic fusion.

Today's video, by the talented team at Kurzgesagt, explains how fusion works, what experiments are ongoing, and the pros and cons of pursuing fusion power generation.

«It is not toxic and not a greenhouse gas, which is one reason why fusion power is so attractive.»

The U.S. National Ignition Facility will devote less time to energy research going forward, after failing to demonstrate the principles of a futuristic fusion power plant

The garbled science in this film makes fusion power even more problematic, and the beautiful but ineffectual physicist Dr. Lily Sinclair (Rachel Weisz) doesn't exactly help the cause of women in science.

Contained, self - sustaining fusion power is still a dream, but the reason that dream may be attainable is magnetism.

Mainstream fusion power schemes fuse hydrogen isotopes called deuterium and tritium to make helium nuclei, releasing large amounts of energy in the process.

We said fusion power would not be harnessed for energy production, that a passenger plane that could go from New York to Tokyo in an hour wouldn't be flying, and that the Strategic Defense Initiative wouldn't be operational.

We will mine it for a valuable fuel which will make fusion power possible at last.

In a 1931 article in The Strand Magazine entitled «Fifty Years Hence» 1, he described fusion power: «If the hydrogen atoms in a pound of water could be prevailed upon to combine together and form helium, they would suffice to drive a thousand - horsepower engine for a whole year.»