Posted on 09/09/2021 11:04:18 AM PDT by Red Badger
MIT breaks magnetic field strength records, paving the way for practical, commercial, carbon-free power.
Project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
SOURCE — MIT
It was a moment three years in the making, based on intensive research and design work: On Sept. 5, for the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped up to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created on Earth. That successful demonstration helps resolve the greatest uncertainty in the quest to build the world’s first fusion power plant that can produce more power than it consumes, according to the project’s leaders at MIT and startup company Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS).
That advance paves the way, they say, for the long-sought creation of practical, inexpensive, carbon-free power plants that could make a major contribution to limiting the effects of global climate change.
“Fusion in a lot of ways is the ultimate clean energy source,” says Maria Zuber, MIT’s vice president for research and E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics. “The amount of power that is available is really game-changing.” The fuel used to create fusion energy comes from water, and “the Earth is full of water — it’s a nearly unlimited resource. We just have to figure out how to utilize it.”
Developing the new magnet is seen as the greatest technological hurdle to making that happen; its successful operation now opens the door to demonstrating fusion in a lab on Earth, which has been pursued for decades with limited progress. With the magnet technology now successfully demonstrated, the MIT-CFS collaboration is on track to build the world’s first fusion device that can create and confine a plasma that produces more energy than it consumes. That demonstration device, called SPARC, is targeted for completion in 2025.
“The challenges of making fusion happen are both technical and scientific,” says Dennis Whyte, director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, which is working with CFS to develop SPARC. But once the technology is proven, he says, “it’s an inexhaustible, carbon-free source of energy that you can deploy anywhere and at any time. It’s really a fundamentally new energy source.”
Whyte, who is the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, says this week’s demonstration represents a major milestone, addressing the biggest questions remaining about the feasibility of the SPARC design. “It’s really a watershed moment, I believe, in fusion science and technology,” he says.
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https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusion-energy-0908
Need.
Damn Russians.
5.56mm
“limited range
long recharge time.
initial cost.
strain on the grid
massive foot print of the battery when it reaches EOL.”
Just a list of anti-EV talking points without consideration of real-world data.
If fusion breaks through, desalination of the oceans will make hundreds of current deserts around the world into gardens of Eden. Australia will become a superpower, and Africa will come into its own.
“***LENR has been doing that for 30 years.”
Please stop spamming science threads.
You aint welcome on the LENR threads. These Hot-fusion threads are a free-for all. You’re invited to take apart that analysis of better-bang-for-the-buck, but you won’t. Because you wouldn’t know science if it bit you in the butt.
In the meantime it is rightful for US to ask YOU to please stop pushing your line of bullsnot on these science threads.
TTFN
It’s still a long way from powering your toaster.
Your prediction has a high probability of coming true.
Except...tribal wars, political instability, etc.
I hope I’m wrong.
5.56mm
“My Altima can leave one in the dust. That’s what.”
Your Altima woud get smoked, 0 to 60 mph, by a Tesla
https://autofiles.com/0-60-times/tesla/
https://autofiles.com/0-60-times/nissan/altima/
There will always be trouble.
‘In This World You Will Have Trouble’ John 16:33
“The poor you will always have with you” (Matthew 26:11).
I can’t make gasoline at home. But I can make electricity, as limited as it is.
Use it to power Vegas. Let the Colorado flow to Mexico like it used to.
“power plant that can produce more power than it consumes”
Power plants don’t consume power. They consumer energy.
It’s like the difference between saying that your car gets 30 miles per gallon of gas, and your car gets 30 miles per hour per gallon of gas.
“It doesn’t make sense for its intended purpose.”
It makes perfect sense for its intended purpose.
I like mega projects.
Like damming up San Francisco Bay, to generate the largest freshwater man-made lake in the world. No water shortage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reber_Plan
The same could be done to the Colorado River.
So true...
The headline is crap
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