I believe that the sun is
powered by the nuclear fusion of hydrogen in to helium, because the spectrum of the emitted light is exactly as predicted by theory and tested by experiment on earth.
Stars are
powered by nuclear fusion, converting hydrogen into helium in their cores.
Objects heavier than 70 Jupiter masses are not cold enough to be brown dwarfs, implying that they are all stars
powered by nuclear fusion.
This mechanism provided ages of the Sun that were much smaller than what is observed in the geologic record, and was rendered obsolete by the discovery that stars are
powered by nuclear fusion.
I know three people whose homes are
powered by nuclear fusion.
Not exact matches
If electricity use continues to double every nine years, huge amounts of
power will have to come from 500 years» worth of coal supplies and lots of
nuclear power plants —
by this time possibly breeder or
fusion plants.
One of the most exciting ideas proposed
by Freese is that the universe's first stars were
powered not
by nuclear fusion, but
by the annihilation of dark matter particles.
For decades scientists have sought to generate clean energy
by instigating the kind of sustained
nuclear fusion reactions that
power the sun.
A $ 12 billion worldwide attempt to generate
power from
nuclear fusion was signed into existence today
by ministers from the project's seven international partners — China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the United States.
Unlike the waste from conventional
nuclear power plants, which remains radioactive for tens of thousands of years, the
by - products of
fusion decay within decades.
Some scientists propose creating
power sources and electricity
by igniting
fusion reactions with lasers that trigger
nuclear fission that can consume spent
nuclear fuel.
nuclear power Energy derived from processes that produce heat
by splitting apart the nuclei of atoms (fission) or forcing atomic nuclei to merge (
fusion).
But there are three other major energy options that need to be considered to help fill this need for non-fossil energy
by 2050, one or all of which may end up being more cost effective and thus less harmful to global economic growth:
nuclear fission (chapter 7),
fusion (chapter 8), and solar
power collected in space rather than on Earth's surface (chapter 9).
When
powered by cheap virtually unlimited
nuclear fission or in future
nuclear fusion energy we'd have unlimited liquid transport fuels.