Posted on 10/06/2020 5:15:11 AM PDT by srmanuel
Begin Construction of working prototype in 2021, with a supposedly working Nuclear Fusion Reactor producing power in 2025 if all goes well and the technology actually works....
(Excerpt) Read more at oilprice.com ...
The energy source of the future...and it always will be.
You know, you can post more than a half sentence.
I think everything is a fuel of the future. At some point, we will be able to have clean coal, with nearly no pollution, other than CO2 and we will be able to re=use the byproducts of coal in nearly 100% efficiency.
That’s why I posted the link to the article...if you are truly interested in Nuclear Fusion, which I am, read the article, which I did...
We are going to need it if we are all driving electric cars by 2030.
Where does Yucca mountain fit in all this?
Not on excerpt-only list, and has obnoxious text-blockers. So posting the whole thing. You’re welcome.
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The decades-old dream of many scientists and science fiction writers may come true at some point over the next decade. Researchers at MIT and a startup spun out of MIT are working on a nuclear fusion experiment, which they are fairly certain will achieve its goal of creating a hot burning plasma to produce for the first time ever fusion energy more than the energy consumed to generate that fusion energy.
Nuclear fusion has long been considered the answer to zero-emission by-product-free energy generation. However, no one has cracked the nuclear fusion code yet because of the challenges associated with the environment in which the process could take place.
Fusion is the natural process that heats the Sun and all other stars, in which a huge amount of energy is produced by the fusion of light atoms, such as those in hydrogen, into heavier elements like helium.
Although this type of energy production has been long recognized as totally carbon- and by-product-free and the source atoms in hydrogen are abundant on Earth, replicating fusion energy generation on Earth has been a challenge. That’s because this fusion needs to take place at extremely high temperatures that create hot plasma, and because researchers have struggled to obtain more energy from those plasmas than the energy input to run them.
MIT and the startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) are currently working to develop a next-generation fusion research experiment, called SPARC, as a precursor to a practical, emissions-free power plant. MIT and CFS researchers believe the experiment will work as planned to create and confine a plasma that produces net fusion energy, they said in seven studies published in the Journal of Plasma Physics this week.
I miss Kevmo, the E-Cat, and Rossi...
I am 66. I have been reading that fusion was just around the corner for most of my life. Now when i see these claims what i read is, “Hey, i have to pay for this Mercedes and mansionette. Send funding and i will supply even more promises. “
I’ve heard this for half a century now.
Oilprice.com is a commie, permanent site, I suspect funded by green posse. I have invested in carbon based companies for years and filled this site about a year and made my conclusion based on that. BTW, when fusion occurs, I don’t want to be here...by then, StarTrek commie setting with no money allowed, all morals are equal, and someone like Sulu will rule the world...no thanks.
Gen IV nuclear would be fine without fusion.
Of course we won’t build them.
Neither of which take into account our transmission and distribution lines.
Me too!
THANK YOU!!!
Lithium salt fission reactors are available now.
I wish Pons and Fleischman had not been so overplayed by the media.
It seems like a worthy idea to research further.
Can a strong-enough electromagnetic field cause atoms to fuse.
That is, until we get a working element 115 reactor.
Overall, says Martin Greenwald, deputy director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and one of the project’s lead scientists, the work is progressing smoothly and on track. This series of papers provides a high level of confidence in the plasma physics and the performance predictions for SPARC, he says. No unexpected impediments or surprises have shown up, and the remaining challenges appear to be manageable. This sets a solid basis for the device’s operation once constructed, according to Greenwald.
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The analysis done so far shows that the planned fusion energy output of the SPARC tokamak should be able to meet the design specifications with a comfortable margin to spare. It is designed to achieve a Q factor — a key parameter denoting the efficiency of a fusion plasma — of at least 2, essentially meaning that twice as much fusion energy is produced as the amount of energy pumped in to generate the reaction. That would be the first time a fusion plasma of any kind has produced more energy than it consumed.
The calculations at this point show that SPARC could actually achieve a Q ratio of 10 or more, according to the new papers. While Greenwald cautions that the team wants to be careful not to overpromise, and much work remains, the results so far indicate that the project will at least achieve its goals, and specifically will meet its key objective of producing a burning plasma, wherein the self-heating dominates the energy balance.
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