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    MIT Researchers Say Their Fusion Reactor Is “Very Likely to Work”

    MIT Researchers Say Their Fusion Reactor Is “Very Likely to Work”

    Perhaps fusion energy is no longer decades away. Let's home so. It would shut down the political agenda of the Global Warmists.

    One correction to the article. There is a "working" fusion reactor, however it uses far more energy than it produces.

    A team of researchers at MIT and other institutions say their “SPARC” compact fusion reactor should actually work — at least in theory, as they argue in a series of recently released research papers.

    In a total of seven papers penned by 47 researchers from 12 institutions, the team argues that no unexpected impediments or surprises have shown up during the planning stages.


    In other words, the research “confirms that the design we’re working on is very likely to work,” Martin Greenwald, deputy director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and project lead, told The New York Times.


    Fusion power remains elusive, but the tech promises to one day become a safe and clean way of producing energy by fusing atomic nuclei together like the Sun. Despite almost a century of research, though, nobody has managed to pull it off yet.


    SPARC, one of the largest privately funded project of its kind in the field, would be a first of its kind: a “burning plasma” reactor that fuses hydrogen isotopes to form helium, with no other input of energy needed.



    Thanks to progress in the field of superconducting magnets, the team hopes to achieve the same performance as far larger reactors, such as the gigantic ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) reactor, which started assembly in July.
    The magnets are used to contain the extremely hot and high pressure reactions going on inside the reactor, one of fusion’s greatest challenges.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    MIT Researchers Say Their Fusion Reactor Is “Very Likely to Work”

    Perhaps fusion energy is no longer decades away. Let's home so. It would shut down the political agenda of the Global Warmists.

    One correction to the article. There is a "working" fusion reactor, however it uses far more energy than it produces.
    Read the rest at the link.
    Every couple of years someone announces a potential breakthrough. But, none of them work.

    Eventually we might see fusion (other than in thermonuclear weapons).
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


    I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.

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    Oh...another one of those.... The Operation was a success but the patient died, deals. <heh heh heh>

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    I wish them all the luck but creating energy is not something that is theoretically done. It seems all they have done is created a new battery. Uranium is natures battery and was formed with tremendous amounts of energy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    Every couple of years someone announces a potential breakthrough. But, none of them work.

    Eventually we might see fusion (other than in thermonuclear weapons).
    Except for that guy with the two rotating barrels that makes more ...

    I think those videos get plenty of clicks but I wonder if anyone actually finishes watching one to see what they are trying to sell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    MIT Researchers Say Their Fusion Reactor Is “Very Likely to Work”

    Perhaps fusion energy is no longer decades away.
    I hope it works.

    Technology may progress at a slow rate, but it progresses!

    Science Fiction may not become reality in a short run, but eventually it will be surpassed!

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    Here is a new article about the MIT project.

    Nuclear fusion reactor could be here as soon as 2025

    A viable nuclear fusion reactor — one that spits out more energy than it consumes — could be here as soon as 2025.

    That's the takeaway of seven new studies, published Sept. 29 in the Journal of Plasma Physics.


    If a fusion reactor reaches that milestone, it could pave the way for massive generation of clean energy.


    During fusion, atomic nuclei are forced together to form heavier atoms. When the mass of the resulting atoms is less than the mass of the atoms that went into their creation, the excess mass is converted to energy, liberating an extraordinary amount of light and heat. Fusion powers the sun and stars, as the mighty gravity at their hearts fuse hydrogen to create helium.

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