Sentences with phrase «like nuclear fusion»

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source.

As much as harnessing new energy sources like nuclear fusion, it is solving this basic storage problem that could revolutionize our faltering energy supply systems.

Not exact matches

For less massive stars like the Sun the process that brings them into existence is quite well understood — as clouds of gas are pulled together under gravity, density and temperature increase, and nuclear fusion begins)-- but for the most massive stars buried in regions like RCW 106 this explanation does not seem to be fully adequate.

Carbon, oxygen, iron, and the like had to wait for stars — especially the massive ones — to form and create heavier elements via nuclear fusion.

«We will almost certainly learn things like how to achieve useful nuclear fusion.»

Nuclear fusion seems like the perfect solution, with virtually limitless supplies of fuel, no greenhouse gases, and little radioactive waste.

True star travel will probably require technologies like antimatter or nuclear fusion rockets, which are currently not much more than dreams.

In lower - mass stars like the Sun, however, there is insufficient mass to squeeze the core to the temperatures needed for this chain of fusion processes to proceed, and eventually the outermost layers extend so far from the source of nuclear burning that they cool to a few thousand kelvins.

While using nuclear fusion to power homes and businesses may still be some way off, the work proves that the burning of star - like fuel can be achieved and contained using the current approach.

As was argued here, this fusion of environmentalism and advocacy of nuclear power looks less like a Damascene conversion, and more like a Reformation.

Deep in the psyche of these over 50s men, other than those like me who have resisted the nuclear siren's call, there is a non-rational belief in the endless safe power of nuclear fission and delusions of fusion.

Green options like solar, wind, geothermal; Advanced nuclear options like fusion.

But I sincerely hope it does cross them — or, against all the odds and the known physics, we can develop nuclear fusion power — because, being a cautious (and precautious) chap, I like insurance.