Sentences with phrase «of plasma energy»

To make matters worse, it contains a source of Plasma Energy, an extremely potent power source, and Megatron is intent on taking hold of it to Cyberform the Earth within a matter of days.

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Based on previous research and work in the field of plasma physics, the two former Creo laser printing employees believe they can build a reactor to fuse hydrogen atoms together by pneumatically - driven pistons and produce enormous increases in energy.

I lucked out in avoiding the worst offender: A plasma TV, the Department of Energy says, costs a whopping $ 165 a year for its standby power consumption alone.

Their piston - based reactor is designed to create energy bursts lasting thousandths of seconds, rather than a sustained plasma reaction.

Observation of a Kelvin - Helmholtz Instability in a High - Energy - Density Plasma on the Omega Laser

Measurements of turbulent mixing due to Kelvin - Helmholtz instability in high - energy - density plasmas

Coupling of laser energy into hot - electrons in high - contrast relativistic laser - plasma interactions

Sled dogs fed a diet consisting of 35 % of energy from protein had higher plasma volume than dogs fed a diet with 18 % of energy from protein (63).

The approach he pursued used powerful magnets to pack a superheated gas, or plasma, into a volume so tiny that some of the gas atoms» nuclei would fuse together, resulting in a dramatic energy release.

They teamed up with James Dedrick and Andrew Gibson from the York Plasma Institute, University of York, U.K. to study how plasma behavior varies in relation to spatial location, time and particle ePlasma Institute, University of York, U.K. to study how plasma behavior varies in relation to spatial location, time and particle eplasma behavior varies in relation to spatial location, time and particle energy.

«Plasmas have been considered by many as a way to make ammonia that is not dependent on fossil fuels and had the potential to be applied in a less centralized way,» said William Schneider, H. Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Professor of Engineering, affiliated member of ND Energy and co-author of the study.

The energy in the plasma excites nitrogen molecules, one of the two components that go into making ammonia, allowing them to react more readily on the catalysts.

From 1987 until he launched his 1998 congressional campaign, Holt was assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), a Department of Energy national lab, which is the largest research facility of Princeton University and one of the largest alternative energy research facilities in the coEnergy national lab, which is the largest research facility of Princeton University and one of the largest alternative energy research facilities in the coenergy research facilities in the country.

By combining observations from the ground and in space, the team observed a plume of low - energy plasma particles that essentially hitches a ride along magnetic field lines — streaming from Earth's lower atmosphere up to the point, tens of thousands of kilometers above the surface, where the planet's magnetic field connects with that of the sun.

This would create a layer of plasma from ionised gas, which would generate a thermonuclear shock wave that ripples through the fuel, promoting compression (Energy & Environmental Science, DOI: 10.1039 / b904609g).

A system that can compare physical objects while potentially protecting sensitive information about the objects themselves has been demonstrated experimentally at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).

PPPL, on Princeton University's Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro, N.J., is devoted to creating new knowledge about the physics of plasmas — ultra-hot, charged gases — and to developing practical solutions for the creation of fusion energy.

Using computer simulations, they modeled the response of the plasma confined in loops to the energy transported by energetic electrons.

That model assumes that relativistic jets store energy primarily in the form of hot matter (plasma) and less in the form of magnetic fields generated by shock waves at the front of the jets.

At the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), scientists have assembled a large database of detailed measurements of the two dimensional (2 - D) structure of edge plasma turbulence made visible by a diagnostic technique known as gas puff imPlasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), scientists have assembled a large database of detailed measurements of the two dimensional (2 - D) structure of edge plasma turbulence made visible by a diagnostic technique known as gas puff implasma turbulence made visible by a diagnostic technique known as gas puff imaging.

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have simulated the spontaneous transition of turbulence at the edge of a fusion plasma to the high - confinement mode (H - mode) that sustains fusion reacPlasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have simulated the spontaneous transition of turbulence at the edge of a fusion plasma to the high - confinement mode (H - mode) that sustains fusion reacplasma to the high - confinement mode (H - mode) that sustains fusion reactions.

Giant eruptions of hot plasma and high - energy particles spewed forth, a Mount Everest's weight of gas in a single belch.

High - energy protons and electrons come screaming out of the reconnection site, flow along the loop, and crash into the denser plasma at the sun's surface.

Chandrayaan - 2 will collect data on the moon's thin envelope of plasma, as well as isotopes such as helium - 3, a potential fuel for future fusion energy reactors.

The new capability, developed by physicist Mario Podestà at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), outfits the code known as TRANSP with a subprogram that simulates the motion that leads to the loss of energetic ions caused by instabilities in the plasma that fuels fusion reacPlasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), outfits the code known as TRANSP with a subprogram that simulates the motion that leads to the loss of energetic ions caused by instabilities in the plasma that fuels fusion reacplasma that fuels fusion reactions.

He explains the extent to which physicists» understanding of the mechanisms governing turbulent transport in such high - temperature plasmas has been critical in improving the advances towards harvesting fusion energy.

They predicted that the same hot plasma producing the radiation will also act to block the visible light, causing the gusher of energy from the kilonova to flood out in near - infrared light over several days.

The nuclear phase diagram: RHIC sits in the energy «sweet spot» for exploring the transition between ordinary matter made of hadrons and the early universe matter known as quark - gluon plasma.

By arranging their detectors at the edge of a fusion device, researchers have found that they are able to measure high energy particles kicked out of the plasma by a type of wave that exists in fusion plasmas called an Alfvén wave (named after their discoverer, the Nobel Prize winner Hannes Alfvén).

This plasma of high - energy electron particles then release a controlled beam of ultra-energized photons, the gamma rays.

When a radio - frequency electric pulse is applied to one end of such a tube (Anderson and Alexeff use fluorescent lamps), the energy from the pulse ionizes the gas inside to produce a plasma.

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.

Dawson is an expert on the interactions of lasers with plasma, the high - energy state of matter in which electrons are no longer bound in atoms, but move around independently of the positive ions they leave behind.

The results confirm that with the large numbers of neutrinos emitted in a stellar collapse, the transfer of energy to the plasma wave can occur.

Researchers led by space physicist Chuanfei Dong of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University have recently raised doubts about water on — and thus potential habitability of — frequently cited exoplanets that orbit red dwarfs, the most common stars in the Milky Way.

The energy that powers space storms comes from clouds of plasma hurled at Earth by the sun.

These applications require an understanding of energy absorption and momentum transfer from the high - intensity lasers to plasma particles.

Since the experiment fires protons at boron plasma, it effectively mimics cosmic rays crashing into plasmas in space, which may aid studies of high - energy particle behaviour, says Mac Low.

It takes a huge amount of energy to get the plasma into this state, and the goal for ITER researchers is to demonstrate that they can control the fusion reaction and generate 10 times as much power as the reactor consumes.

«Plasma is an aggregate state that exists when energy is added to a gas or gas mixture,» says Prof. Viöl, director of the Application Center for Plasma and Photonics.

Since the operating temperature for fusion is in the hundreds of millions degrees Celsius, hotter than any known material can withstand, engineers found they could contain a plasma — a neutral electrically conductive, high - energy state of matter — at these temperatures using magnetic fields.

«The achievement of ignition on NIF should be an important trigger for the government to decide if it should launch a national coordinated [inertial fusion energy] program,» says committee co-chair Ronald Davidson of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey.

The research, from scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is presented as the cover story in the May special issue of Physics of Plasmas.

Neutral particles provide the buoyancy the gnarled knots of magnetic energy need to rise through the sun's boiling plasma and reach the chromosphere.

Magnetic reconnection, in addition to pushing around clouds of plasma, converts some magnetic energy into heat, which has an effect on just how much energy is left over to move the particles through space.

Since the researchers know the energy of the jet when it is produced, and can measure its energy coming out, they can calculate its energy loss, which provides clues to the density of the plasma and the strength of its interaction with the jet.

The goal of fusion physicists is to use the heat from a fusing plasma to keep the reaction going indefinitely, without the need to pump in external energy.

By combining data from two high - energy accelerators, nuclear scientists have refined the measurement of a remarkable property of exotic matter known as quark - gluon plasma.

In this new work, Wang's team refined a probe that makes use of a phenomenon researchers at Berkeley Lab first theoretically outlined 20 years ago: energy loss of a high - energy particle, called a jet, inside the quark gluon plasma.

«But we found even more: The plasma responds by producing a wake that takes a lot of energy out of the bunch.