Sentences with phrase «n't fusion research»
Considering the obvious benefits of fusion energy and the considerable efforts spent trying to attain them, why hasn't fusion research so far produced better results?
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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.
Should governments pull the plug on megaprojects like ITER, it wouldn't stop private - sector players like Burnaby, B.C. - based General Fusion Inc., a year - old startup by former Creo Inc. managers that has so far attracted about half the $ 50 million in venture capital and federal research funds it says it needs to demonstrate a kind of «magnetized target fusion» by 2013.
LHC has attracted many great minds, not to mention fusion research which could produce great wealth in the future.
The details won't be out for another week, but in their version of the 2013 budget for the Department of Energy (DOE), legislators on a spending panel in the House of Representatives would reverse dramatic cuts to the U.S. fusion research program that the White House proposed in February.
A. Cho's story «Commitments, ideology clash over research spending» (News Focus, 11 November 2011, p. 754) points out far - reaching priority choices that may have to be made by the Office of Science in a flat budget scenario that can not accommodate ongoing domestic projects as well as the increasing contribution to the $ 23 billion international fusion experiment, ITER, in France.
In some cases, it is embodied in areas of research like cold fusion / LENR that simply will not go away, even when given up on as false by a majority of scientists.
He is a contributing editor for Scientific American and editorial director at Intellectual Ventures, a research and investment firm that has a spin - off company working on fission (not fusion) power.
Even though DOE promised to limit spending on ITER to $ 225 million a year so as not to starve domestic fusion research efforts, that statement irked Senators Dianne Feinstein (D — CA) and Lamar Alexander (R — TN), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, respectively.
If there's some fusion path, if there's some solar fuels path in a — Nate Lewis's problem is not a deployment problem; his problem is a basic research, generosity, materials understanding.
«It may be that the normal TEL allele successfully suppresses the function of the aberrant TEL - AML1 protein resulting from the fusion, so full - blown leukemia doesn't occur,» said the lead author of the study, Joseph Wiemels, PhD, now a UCSF assistant research molecular epidemiologist.
Berkeley Lab's inertial fusion energy research has emphasized ion beams — focused by magnetic fields, not materials like glass, and accelerated by induction accelerators.
The successful fusion of university research and traditional training requires the provision not only of academic resources, but of experiential learning opportunities, community mentoring, and the utilization of indigenous knowledge.
Since reproducibility is a cornerstone of the scientific process, if one research comes up with some bizarre result (think cold fusion) and it can't be reproduced, it's tossed out.
Taken to its logical conclusion every penny not spent on fusion research may turn out to be a penny wasted.
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.