US Scientists Reach ‘Holy Grail’ Net Profit Nuclear Fusion Reaction: Report
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Washington Post ^
| December 11, 2022 | Evan Halper and Pranshu Verma
The Department of Energy plans to announce Tuesday that scientists have been able for the first time to produce a fusion reaction that creates a net energy gain — a major milestone in the decades-long, multibillion dollar quest to develop a technology that provides unlimited, cheap, clean power. The
aim of fusion research is to replicate the nuclear reaction through which energy is created on the sun. It is a “holy grail” of carbon-free power that scientists have been chasing since the 1950s. It is still at least a decade — maybe decades — away from commercial use, but the...
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"The Fool" - original jazz fusion, by Yours Truly
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me, via Rumble ^
| 11/18/22 | me, as "Hopalong Ginsberg"
My latest song. Beware of fools.
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Trial shows benefits of two forms of ankle surgery for osteoarthritis (total ankle replacement beats fusion)
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Medical Xpress / University College London / Annals of Internal Medicine ^
| Nov. 14, 2022 | Dr. Andrew Goldberg, et al
Patients with advanced ankle osteoarthritis who undergo surgery see equally good outcomes from the two main surgical treatments for osteoarthritis, a new study has shown. The
TARVA randomized clinical trial compared total ankle joint replacement with ankle fusion (when the ankle joint is pinned to prevent movement). The study analyzed the outcomes from half of whom had total ankle replacement and half had ankle fusion surgery. Both procedures are intended to relieve pain and restore movement that was lost due to advanced osteoarthritis. The study found that both total ankle replacement and ankle fusion improved patients' quality of life considerably....
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What Are The Benefits Of Fusion Energy?
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Nation and State ^
| 11/11/2022 | Tyler Durden
As the world moves towards net-zero emissions, sustainable and affordable power sources are urgently needed by humanity.As Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti details below, one of the most promising technologies, fusion, has attracted the attention of governments and private companies like Chevron and Google. In fact, Bloomberg Intelligence has estimated that the fusion
market may eventually be valued at $40 trillion.In this infographic sponsored by General Fusion, we discuss the benefits of fusion as a clean energy source.The Ultimate Source of Energy Fusion powers the sun and the stars, where the immense force of gravity compresses and heats hydrogen plasma, fusing...
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Nuclear fusion plant to be built at West Burton A power station
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BBC ^
| October 3, 2022 | By Tony Roe & Alex Smith
Inside the reactor - IMAGE SOURCE,UK ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY Nuclear fusion reactors need to reach very high temperatures and pressure A power station has been chosen to be the site of the UK's, and potentially the world's, first prototype commercial nuclear fusion reactor. Fusion
is a potential source of almost limitless clean energy but is currently only carried out in experiments. The government had shortlisted five sites but has picked the West Burton A plant in Nottinghamshire. The plant should be operational by the early 2040s, a UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) spokesman has said. The government had pledged more...
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Scientists bring the fusion energy that lights the sun and stars closer to reality on Earth
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/phys.org ^
| SEPTEMBER 27, 2022 | John Greenwald, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
....the source of the sudden and puzzling collapse of heat that precedes disruptions that can damage doughnut-shaped tokamak fusion facilities. Researchers
traced the collapse to the 3D disordering of the strong magnetic fields that bottle up the hot, charged plasma gas that fuels the reactions. The strong magnetic fields substitute in fusion facilities for the immense gravity that holds fusion reactions in place in celestial bodies. But when disordered by plasma instability in laboratory experiments the field lines allow the superhot plasma heat to rapidly escape confinement. Such million-degree heat crushes plasma particles together to release fusion energy and can...
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China Announces Plan for Hybrid Fission-Fusion Power Facility
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Futurism ^
| SEP 17 | NOOR AL-SIBAI
Over the past few years, researchers and a growing number of startups have made claims about bringing the world closer and closer to nuclear fusion — but the reality is far less impressive than that, with expensive reactors still requiring far more energy to get started than they are able to put
out. China's new reactor will essentially replicate the detonation of a thermonuclear bomb by producing powerful electric pulses. These pulses generate enough pressure to fuse atoms together, a process which releases energy. In fact, all the preceding "Z-pinch" reactors that have been built around the world so far...
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Korea's Fusion Reactor Ran 7 Times Hotter Than The Sun For Almost 30 Seconds
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Science Alert ^
| 9/9/2022 | AVID NIELD
Korea's 'artificial Sun' reactor has made headlines this week by officially sustaining plasma at a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius for more than 20 seconds. The
team at the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) device reached an ion temperature of above 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit).According to New Scientist, the reaction was only stopped after 30 seconds because of hardware limitations. KSTAR uses magnetic fields to generate and stabilize ultra-hot plasma, with the ultimate aim of making nuclear fusion power a reality. You can see the footage below showing the reactor run over 24 seconds,...
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Scientists Achieved Self-Sustaining Nuclear Fusion… But Now They Can't Replicate It
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Science Alert ^
| 16 August 2022 | By FELICITY NELSON
Scientists have confirmed that last year, for the first time in the lab, they achieved a fusion reaction that self-perpetuates (instead of fizzling out) – bringing us closer to replicating the chemical reaction that powers the Sun. However, they aren't exactly sure how to recreate the experiment. Nuclear
fusion occurs when two atoms combine to create a heavier atom, releasing a huge burst of energy in the process. It's a process often found in nature, but it's very difficult to replicate in the lab because it needs a high-energy environment to keep the reaction going. The Sun generates energy using...
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Nuclear Fusion Energy Breakthrough: Ignition Confirmed in Record 1.3 Megajoule Shot
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Scitech Daily ^
| By LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY AUGUST 14, 2022
On the one-year anniversary of achieving a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules at LLNL’s National Ignition Facility, the scientific results of this record experiment have been published in three peer-reviewed papers: one in Physical Review Letters and two in Physical Review E. This stylized image shows a cryogenic target used for
these record-setting inertial fusion experiments. Credit:James Wickboldt/LLNL After decades of inertial confinement fusion research, a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ) was achieved for the first time on August 8, 2021. This put scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the threshold...
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Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Confirmed: California Team Achieved Ignition
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newsweek.com ^
| 8/12/22 AT 9:20 AM EDT | JESS THOMSON ON
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL's) National Ignition Facility (NIF) recorded the first case of ignition on August 8, 2021, the results of which have now been published in three peer-reviewed papers. Nuclear
fusion is the process that powers the Sun and other stars: heavy hydrogen atoms collide with enough force that they fuse together to form a helium atom, releasing large amounts of energy as a by-product. Once the hydrogen plasma "ignites", the fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining, with the fusions themselves producing enough power to maintain the temperature without external heating. Ignition during a fusion reaction essentially means...
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Magnetizing laser-driven inertial fusion implosions
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Phys.org ^
| JUNE 10, 2022 | y Ingrid Fadelli ,
Nuclear fusion is a widely studied process through which atomic nuclei of a low atomic number fuse together to form a heavier nucleus, while releasing a large amount of energy. Nuclear
fusion reactions can be produced using a method known as inertial confinement fusion, which entails the use of powerful lasers to implode a fuel capsule and produce plasma. Researchers...recently showed what happens to this implosion when one applies a strong magnetic field to the fuel capsule used for inertial confinement fusion. Their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, demonstrates that strong magnetic fields flatten the shape of inertial fusion...
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Fusion GPS Loses Its Fight Over “Privileged” Documents
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Tradeforprofit.net ^
| 5-13-2022
We’ve documented the ongoing battle to obtain Fusion GPS e-mails and documents in the Michael Sussmann case. At
issue in the Sussmann case are 38 e-mails and attachments between and among Fusion GPS, Rodney Joffe, and Perkins Coie. These 38 e-mails and attachments are among approximately 1,500 documents that Fusion GPS withheld from production to the grand jury based on “privilege.” What Fusion GPS has to produce.Today, the court in the Sussmann case made an important ruling and rejected, in large measure, Fusion’s assertion of attorney-client or work-product privilege:Fusion GPS will have to produce these documents to Special Counsel Durham...
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Techno Fog: Fusion GPS Loses Fight to Keep “Privileged” Documents From Special Prosecutor John Durham
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GATEWAY PUNDIT ^
| 5/12/2022 | Christina Laila
Techno Fog: Fusion GPS Loses Fight to Keep “Privileged” Documents From Special Prosecutor John Durham By Cristina Laila Published May 12, 2022 at 3:30pm 243 Comments Share Tweet Gab Share TelegramTelegram Gettr Gettr By Techno Fog on SubStack: We’ve documented the ongoing battle to obtain Fusion GPS e-mails and documents in the
Michael Sussmann case. At issue in the Sussmann case are 38 e-mails and attachments between and among Fusion GPS, Rodney Joffe, and Perkins Coie. These 38 e-mails and attachments are among approximately 1,500 documents that Fusion GPS withheld from production to the grand jury based on “privilege.” What...
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Judge orders Steele dossier firm Fusion GPS to turn over 22 emails to John Durham
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nypost ^
| 5/12/2022 | Ben Feuerherd and Bruce Golding
Special counsel John Durham scored a victory Thursday when a federal judge ordered the research firm behind the infamous “Steele dossier” to turn over nearly two dozen emails tied to its work with Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann. Fusion GPS improperly withheld the 22 emails from Durham by claiming they were
protected by attorney-client privilege and “work-product” privilege, Washington, DC, federal Judge Christopher Cooper ruled. The move came at the request of Clinton’s 2016 campaign, according to the 11-page decision. But the emails, which largely consist of internal communications between Fusion employees, aren’t protected from disclosure because they “appear...
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Reputed Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Val Broeksmit Found Dead on LA School Campus (link to Fusion GPS)
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NBCLA ^
| April 29, 2022 | Staff
......... In a 2019 profile, the New York Times reported that Broeksmit is the son of a Deutsche Bank executive who died by suicide in 2014. After
his father's death, Broeksmit gained access to his father's email account and files related to the bank, the Times reported. Federal and state authorities were scrutinizing allegations of criminal misconduct and the bank's long relationship with former President Donald Trump, the New York Times reported. Former President Trump's longtime bank revealed in August 2019 that it has tax records Congress sought in an investigation into his finances. The U.S. House Intelligence Committee subpoenaed...
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Preliminary survey on cold fusion: It’s not pathological science and may require revision of nuclear theory
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Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry ^
| December 2021 | Luciano Ondir Freire, Delvonei Alves de Andrade
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry Most Downloaded Articles The most downloaded articles from Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry in the last 9 months. Preliminary
survey on cold fusion: It’s not pathological science and may require revision of nuclear theory Luciano Ondir Freire, Delvonei Alves de Andrade Open Access December 2021 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jelechem.2021. rights and content Under a Creative Commons license ---------------------------------------- Highlights • After three decades, “cold fusion” field is alive with thousands of publications technologies. • Nuclear reactions in solids are more complex than simple fusion. • They also seem to need energy triggers like background radiation. • The field does...
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Durham's latest: He has hundreds of e-mails between Fusion GPS and reporters...Also - DARPA Contracts and Classified data
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Techno Fog ^
| April 25, 2022 | Staff
Special Counsel John Durham just filed this motion in response to the efforts of Hillary for America, Fusion GPS, et al. to keep secret (by use of the attorney-client and work product privileges) communications involving Fusion GPS. You can read it here. Durham
states the “purported privilege holders who have intervened do so in a case in which the defendant has denied representing any client when he brought the Russian Bank-1 allegations to the FBI.” The privilege controversy thus entrapped Sussmann to a certain extent. Brilliant. Additionally, Durham casts doubt on the declaration of Marc Elias that Fusion GPS was...
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Clinton Campaign: Fusion GPS provided legal advice
And why Clinton will lose the "privilege" fight.
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technofog.substack.com ^
| 4/20/2022 | technofog
The battle over documents and e-mails in the Michael Sussmann case just got hotter. Back
in August 2017, Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee, explaining how his firm was retained to gather “lots of facts about Donald Trump.” He admitted that Fusion GPS met with reporters leading up to the 2016 election to spread opposition research against then-candidate Trump. The context of Perkins Coie’s retention of Fusion GPS was further explained in a book co-authored by Simpson and Fusion GPS co-founder Peter Fritsch. They documented an April 20, 2016 meeting with Mark Elias (Perkins Coie...
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*Month old news needs repeating* DNC, Clinton campaign agree to pay FEC fines over Fusion GPS payments for Trump dossier. FEC found 'probable cause' that Hillary for America, DNC misreported the purpose of certain disbursements.
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Foxnews ^
| 03/30/2022 | By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News
The Federal Election Commission has reportedly fined Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee over complaints that they violated federal law in improperly describing expenditures to law firm Perkins Coie, who then hired research firm Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on then-candidate Donald Trump. The Coolidge Reagan Foundation published
a letter said to be from the FEC, in response to the foundation's complaint against Hillary for America and the DNC. The Washington Examiner first reported on the memo. TRUMP SUES HILLARY CLINTON, DNC, OFFICIALS INVOLVED IN RUSSIA PROBE "After conducting an investigation in this matter, the Commission...
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