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
” You’re invited to take apart that analysis of better-bang-for-the-buck, but you won’t.”
There wasn’t any analysis to take apart!
“My Altima can leave one in the dust. That’s what.”
Altima 0-60: 6.9 sec
Tesla Model 3: 5.9 sec
“The body style of a Prius for one....”
Prius is a gas powered car ....
Typical TG trolling. The guy is ONLY here to disrupt discussion. Pure Jerk Maneuvers.
Lol...I had the same "reaction" (see what I did there?). I've read stories like this for 40 years.
I just wanted a flying car.
Anything that will get rid of these damn windmills, I’m all for it.
Fusion power is 20 years away......and always will be !
I hope that’s not true !
We shall see !
Yup. Kinda disappointing to see the lack of real progress.
Lets say they came up with real cheap fusion tomorrow.
You know the Left would fall all over themselves to ban it for some reason...................
Hahah, my prediction came true.
“take apart that analysis of better-bang-for-the-buck, but you won’t.”
Water is a critical crucial finite resource that nuclear fuzziation will deplete putting the survival of the Ouagadougou red snaildarter in peril.
Can’t have it.
Tesla Plaid 1.9
Thanks Red Badger.
Sun in a Bottle:
The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking October 30, 2008
by Charles Seife
https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Bottle-Strange-History-Thinking/dp/B002BWQ5H2
America has plenty of deserts that could benefit from desalinated water.
This is a lie. In magnetically confined fusion half the fuel is Tritium which decays with a 12.5 year half-life. The amount of natural tritium is therefore negligible and to get tritium you have to breed it. Turns out based on very simple math that even with 100% recovery and conversion efficiency, tritium breeding from fusion is a losing proposition [you get back fewer tritium atoms than you start with]. So, this MIT geology professor lied.
And then there is this little problem of actually getting fusion to work on anything smaller than a nuclear bomb.
Wrong. It's been a hybrid as well as fully electric.
https://www.toyota.com/priusprime/
Me: Prius is a gas powered car ....
You: Wrong. It’s been a hybrid as well as fully electric.
https://www.toyota.com/priusprime/
ALL Prius’ have a 4 cylinder GAS engine!
https://www.toyota.com/priusprime/features/mpg/1235/1237/1239
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