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.
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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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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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Arstechnica
In a Polywell design, a high-density plasma excludes magnetic field, traps itself.
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The Epoch Times
MIT researchers claim that a new method will finally make fusion energy a reality.
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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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Wired
A report released in May questioned whether the so-called National Ignition Facility would ever meet its goal.
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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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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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EN
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Chinese scientists have successfully obtained high-confinement plasma for a reco
Chinese scientists have successfully obtained high-confinement plasma for a reco
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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
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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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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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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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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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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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Next Big Future
Global ultrahigh power laser projects at 10-100 Petawatts now and soon at Exawatts
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Colorado State University
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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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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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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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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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Physics
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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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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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Physics
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Bloomberg
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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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BBC
Is much-heralded nuclear fusion finally ready to fulfil its promise of abundant energy for all?
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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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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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Physics
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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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BusinessWire
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The Daily Beast
Scientists broke complex magnetic fields—and might have simultaneously figured out how to make green energy cheaper.
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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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Phys Org
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Arstechnica
A reversed ‘D’ shape plasma bottle leads to higher pressure, more stable plasma.
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The Economist
Reactor designs are inspired by everything from smoke rings to shrimps
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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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NBC News
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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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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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Business Insider
Wind, solar, geothermal and hydroelectric are on pace to be cheaper than coal in less than three years.
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Quantumrun Foresight
Increased private funding in the nuclear fusion industry is speeding up research and development.
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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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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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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
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
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Forbes
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Financial Times
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T&D World
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CNBC
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New Scientist
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fDi Intelligence
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Yahoo Finance
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CNBC
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Fast Company
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