fusion energy trends 2022

Fusion energy trends 2022

This List covers trend insights about the future of fusion energy, insights curated in 2022.

This List covers trend insights about the future of fusion energy, insights curated in 2022.

Curated by

  • Quantumrun-TR

Last updated: 28 December 2022

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India to revive cold fusion
Asian Life
By K.S. Jayaraman India is poised to revive research on controversial cold fusion two decades after abandoning what was then billed as a potential source of clean energy. Recommendations for restarting cold fusion experiments have been made by a 'high level group' that included two former chairmen of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE): Anil...
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Lockheed Martin's new fusion reactor might change humanity forever
Gizmodo
This is an invention that might change civilization as we know it: A compact fusion reactor developed by Skunk Works, the stealth experimental technology division of Lockheed Martin. It's the size of a jet engine and it can power airplanes, spaceships, and cities. Skunk Works claims it will be operative in 10 years.
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Magnetic mirror holds promise for fusion
Arstechnica
In a Polywell design, a high-density plasma excludes magnetic field, traps itself.
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MIT researchers on verge of creating limitless energy from nuclear fusion
The Epoch Times
MIT researchers claim that a new method will finally make fusion energy a reality.
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The cold fusion horizon
Aeon
Is cold fusion truly impossible, or is it just that no respectable scientist can risk their reputation working on it?
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Scientists are trying to make nuclear fusion with frickin' lasers
Wired
A report released in May questioned whether the so-called National Ignition Facility would ever meet its goal.
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X-ray breakthrough 'opens door' to controlled nuclear fusion
Wired
Scientists have for the first time been able to monitor the flow of energy during fast ignition, a process that it hoped to be capable of creating controlled nuclear fusion
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MIT nuclear fusion record marks latest step towards unlimited clean energy
The Guardian
Scientists create the highest plasma pressure ever recorded with the Alcator C-Mod reactor in a breakthrough for clean energy technology
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China's 'Artificial Sun' achieves fusion breakthrough
EN
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Chinese scientists have successfully obtained high-confinement plasma for a reco
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Fusion power explained – Future or failure
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
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'Star in a jar' fusion reactor works and promises infinite energy
Space
New tests verify that Germany's Wendelstein 7-X fusion energy device is on track to safely suspend plasma in magnetic fields.
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New finding may explain heat loss in fusion reactors
MIT
Solving a longstanding mystery, MIT experiments reveal two forms of turbulence interacting. The new finding may explain heat loss in nuclear fusion reactors.
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Fusion power: Safe, green and coming soon
The Manufacturer
New projects around the world are bringing us ever closer to the dream of achieving commercially viable fusion power.
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Fusion energy pushed back beyond 2050
BBC
We will have to wait until the second half of the century for fusion reactors to start generating electricity, experts have announced.
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Nuclear sphere: Weird globe could revolutionize fusion energy
Live Science
A team of physicists argues that its strange, spherical fusion reactor could be the way forward for nuclear energy.
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Laser are getting ten times more powerful every 3 years, soon exawatt lasers will unlock fusion and more
Next Big Future
Global ultrahigh power laser projects at 10-100 Petawatts now and soon at Exawatts
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Why nuclear fusion is gaining steam – again
The Conversation
As fusion becomes more technically viable, it's time to assess whether it's worth the money because breakthroughs in the lab don’t guarantee success in the marketplace.
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China touts fusion progress as new details on lockheed martin's reactor emerge
The Drive
Chinese state researchers and the multi-national corporation are both aiming to be first to develop practical fusion power sometime in the 2020s.
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Tokamak energy hits 15 million degree fusion milestone
The Engineer
Privately funded UK venture Tokamak Energy has hit plasma temperatures hotter than the sun’s core for the first time, reaching 15 million degrees.
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Cracking nuclear fusion with supercomputers and smart code
Next Platform
Nuclear fusion, the opportunity to harness the power of the stars, has been a dream of humanity from around the time of the Manhattan Project. But while
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How close are we to fusion energy?
Seeker
Fusion energy might be the safe, efficient, reliable and clean energy source that could save our planet. But, how close are we to a world where fusion energy...
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Fusion energy in the 21st century: Status and the way forward
IAEA
Although its potential to generate electricity at a commercial scale is several decades away, nuclear fusion can become a promising option to replace fossil fuels as the world's primary energy source and could have an important role to play in addressing climate change, participants agreed at an IAEA General Conference side event focused on the status of fusion energy
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MIT plans new fusion reactor that could actually generate power
ExtremeTech
MIT says it has the tools to make true fusion power happen, and it may be producing energy in a ...
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How 'miniature suns' could provide cheap, clean energy
BBC
Is much-heralded nuclear fusion finally ready to fulfil its promise of abundant energy for all?
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China's 'artificial sun' operates at temperatures of 100 million degrees celsius
CGTN
China is making leaps and bounds in developing its artificial sun, known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) by operating nuclear fusion reaction at temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius, according to the Institute of Plasma Physics, affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, on Monday.
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Finally, fusion power is about to become a reality
Medium
The idea first lit up Dennis Whyte when he was in high school, in the remote reaches of Saskatchewan, Canada, in the 1980s. He wrote a term paper on how scientists were trying to harness fusion (the…
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Can AI help crack the code of fusion power?
Verge Science
Practical fusion power, as the joke goes, has been “decades away...for decades.” But recent advancements in advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence p...
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This fusion technology could make clean energy drastically cheaper
The Daily Beast
Scientists broke complex magnetic fields—and might have simultaneously figured out how to make green energy cheaper.
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Why Bezos and Microsoft are betting on this $10 trillion energy fix for the planet
CNBC
Jeff Bezos and others have sunk more than $127 million into General Fusion, a start-up trying to commercialize fusion energy. Microsoft is partnering with the company. The goal is to provide energy to the 1 billion people on the planet that don't have access to electricity.
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Physicists “flip the D” in tokamak, get unexpectedly good result
Arstechnica
A reversed ‘D’ shape plasma bottle leads to higher pressure, more stable plasma.
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Fusion power is attracting private-sector interest
The Economist
Reactor designs are inspired by everything from smoke rings to shrimps
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China's Anhei Tokamak leads the way to fusion energy
Interesting Engineering
China's Anhei tokamak just became the first facility in the world to generate 100 million degrees Celsius (212 million Fahrenheit). The facility is part of the ITER project aiming for fusion energy.
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Machine learning speeds modeling of experiments aimed at capturing fusion energy on earth
Princeton Research
Machine learning (ML), a form of artificial intelligence that recognizes faces, understands language and navigates self-driving cars, can help bring to Earth the clean fusion energy that lights the sun and stars. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are using ML to create a model for rapid control of plasma — the state
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Twisted nuclear fusion is much closer to actually happening
Popular Mechanics
Permanent magnets could help to stabilize and simplify stellarator fusion reactor design. Does that mean we're on the verge of a nuclear fusion breakthrough?
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'INFLECTION POINT': Renewables will be the 'cheapest form of new power generation' by 2020
Business Insider
Wind, solar, geothermal and hydroelectric are on pace to be cheaper than coal in less than three years.
Insight posts
Private money in nuclear fusion: The future of energy generation is funded
Quantumrun Foresight
Increased private funding in the nuclear fusion industry is speeding up research and development.
Insight posts
Thorium energy: A greener energy solution to nuclear reactors
Quantumrun Foresight
Thorium and molten salt reactors could be the next “big thing” in energy, but how safe and green are they?
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Clean energy jobs overtake fossil fuel sector but wages lag behind
Climate change news
Employment is booming in electric vehicle production, building insulation and renewable power sectors, the International Energy Agency reports
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Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition
Cell.com
Decisions about how and when to decarbonize the global energy system are highly influenced
by estimates of the likely cost. Here, we generate empirically validated probabilistic
forecasts of energy technology costs and use these to estimate future energy system
costs under three scenarios. Compared to continuing with a fossil fuel-based system,
a rapid green energy transition is likely to result i