Sentences with phrase «fusion reactors»

There is the promise of fusion reactors, but that hope has always been 30 years away, and we're still 30 years away by optimistic estimates, which could mean we're 50 - 100 years away.

Well, you could do this — or you could just develop working fusion reactors.

These days you probably feel flooded by dire - sounding environmental news («the Earth is set to deflate by 2011») and endless suggestions for greener living («algae cold - fusion reactors for your shoes»).

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.

Renewables are no good far away from any star so we need to create our own mini stars that we can control and that is fusion reactors.

We have not succeeded in fusion reactors so far because we do not have the needed computer power yet.

c. Steady H - fusion reactors will meet future energy needs.

We could talk about fusion reactors, but I doubt that they will be ready soon enough (if at all) to be a viable alternative to «covering» Earth in solar panels and wind farms.

We need to conceive of how fusion reactors will work in a clean economy.

But the reality is we're still decades away from commercial fusion reactors.

Needless to say, over the past 50 years, nobody has yet graduated to the far - more - exclusive club of folks whose fusion reactors work in practice.

Several [out of the eight media - declared] scientific consensuses before 1985 turned out to be wrong or exaggerated, e.g., saccharin, dietary fiber, fusion reactors, stratospheric ozone depletion, and even arguably acid rain and high - dose animal testing for carcinogenicity.

Photovoltaics is thermonuclear energy without the engineering difficulties of fusion reactors.

We'll just have to leave it to the tsunamis, though I fully support the idea of orbiting fusion reactors if we have a couple of those laying around the back room.

I don't think we can count on Elon Musk coming up with scaleable atmospheric CO2 scrubbers powered by Lockheed Martin modular fusion reactors.

2) In 2015, scientists at LLNL develop cheap, reliable & portable fusion reactors.

The ship crashed on the ringworld and Master Chief and Cortana worked together to detonate its fusion reactors and destroy the weapon.

The next step will be to use this knowledge to design methods to prevent chirping in present experiments, and to use such methods in the design of future fusion reactors such as ITER.

Once commercial fusion reactors come online, they'll be able to supply humanity with unlimited energy for potentially millions of years.

SCIENTISTS at the University of Huddersfield have been using world - class new facilities to carry out experiments that could aid the development of nuclear fusion reactors, widely regarded as the «Holy Grail» solution to future energy needs.

«Understanding the stabilizing mechanisms of the turbulence is definitely an important task in order to gain a predictive capability in the design of future fusion reactors,» said Ruiz.

The theories derived have helped our understanding of the Sun as well as possibilities for fusion reactors, such as ITER.

Researchers from the US and China have made progress in their joint collaboration on the use of lithium to control plasma within experimental nuclear fusion reactors.

Other studies have found ways to make future fusion reactors better optimized by precisely shaping the magnetic field generated by their electromagnetic coils.

The latter might provide an ideal fuel for nuclear fusion reactors to produce enormous amounts of energy on Earth.

K - DEMO will serve as prototype for the development of commercial fusion reactors.

Experimental devices have produced ion temperatures as high as 45,000 electron volts and densities of approximately 1020 particles per cubic meter, sufficient for fusion reactors.

An extrapolation of the present knowledge of tokamaks indicates that commercial fusion reactors will be rather large and expensive.

He is mining helium - 3, fuel for Earth's fusion reactors, aided by Gerty, the base's robot, laconically voiced by Kevin Spacey.

It offers clues for handling plasmas that roil inside nuclear fusion reactors on Earth.

Researchers are still trying to optimise the conditions inside fusion reactors to enable them to produce energy.

Eventually, studying 3 - D knotted magnetic fields like those potentially present in ball lightning might help scientists devise better ways to control plasmas within future fusion reactors for generating power, the researchers suggest.

An unexpected pattern has been glimpsed in the turbulent solar wind, offering clues for handling plasmas that roil inside nuclear fusion reactors on Earth

Sam Bell, played by Sam Rockwell, toils alone in a stark - white base, working as a glorified handyman for Lunar Industries, an ominously glossy corporation that extracts helium - 3 from the lunar surface to fuel fusion reactors back on Earth.

The experimental fusion reactors now being built around the world use a fuel composed of a plasma of two isotopes of hydrogen — deuterium and tritium.

But if we do away with solid vessels and use magnetic fields (such as in fusion reactors) instead, then higher temperatures can be reached.

Now, researchers at Texas A&M University have discovered a way to make materials that may be suitable for use in future fusion reactors.

As if that was not enough, runaway electrons are wreaking havoc in the fusion reactors that are currently being developed.

«Applications to fusion reactors are just the tip of the iceberg,» Demkowicz said.

Other nuclear scientists are waiting to see how South Korea's new energy policy, due by the end of the year, might affect research, including work on fusion reactors.

Most fusion reactors are therefore enormous machines, like the $ 3.5 billion National Ignition Facility that recently opened in California.

In research machines such as fusion reactors, scientists use strong magnetic fields to confine plasma, but those fields interfere with seeing what might happen during a natural dynamo.

After that I wanted to do something very practical so I switched to work on magnetic confinement fusion, as part of the ongoing effort to develop fusion reactors.

Newman, who as a teen developed a fascination with turbulence as a rafting guide in Colorado, arrived at Oak Ridge in 1993 to explore a different kind of turbulence: the plasma of fusing hydrogen atoms inside experimental fusion reactors.

On their artificial grid, just as in the archives, blackouts looked like growing sand piles or fusion reactors: complex systems.

Essentially, these fusion reactors form energy just as stars do; we are, in that sense, building stars on earth.

For those of you that dispute the science, remember, we have fusion reactors (same principle as the sun) coming on line for regular use in the next year - a small piece of the puzzle.

Among the moon's vast riches: gold, cobalt, iron, palladium, platinum, tungsten and helium - 3, a gas that can be used in future fusion reactors to provide nuclear power without radioactive waste.

The fusion reactor everyone is anticipating is currently under construction in France.

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