Fusion News, March 20, 2024
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- Dr. Leigh Ann Kesler, engineer and fusion consultant specializing in science communication, gives an update on the global development of fusion energy. Links to all the stories mentioned are given below.
1. Inverting Fusion Plasmas Improves Performance
phys.org/news/2024-03-inverti...
2. Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion
news.mit.edu/2024/tests-show-...
3. First Light Fusion hails success of initial test in Z Machine
www.world-nuclear-news.org/Ar....
4. Japan laser fusion startup seeks more partners
asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Pick...
5. Longview Fusion selects Fluor to design laser fusion plant
www.neimagazine.com/news/news...
Bonuses:
Fusion Focus at Congressional Hearing on “ARPA-E’s role in Developing Breakthrough Technologies”
www.fusionindustryassociation...
New European Union Report Outlines New European Public-Private Partnerships for Fusion Energy
www.fusionindustryassociation...
Congress Increases U.S. Funding for Fusion Energy Sciences Research
www.fusionindustryassociation... - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Good video - giving credible, specific, exciting anticipation of success. This is not only fun, and informative, but if you keep doing it, may rolling-snowball get the public to enjoy the imminent big success that will transform society by providing abundant energy, and prepare practically - more funding, more planning based on it.
Thank you for the presentation - and being excited about this technology!
Great news! Inverting fusion plasma, CFS continues to progress and more!
Good video! Not a scientist or Engineer but a fair mechanical inventor with a dew patents. The magnetic field inversion was most interesting. This technology has the power to virtually kill the need for wind, solar, and batteries. The next need will be copper for transmission wiring and all those complimentary rendering alloys and technologies; graphene and borophene and such. We'll all have jobs telling jokes and watching educational videos.
I'm feeling more optimistic that I'll still be around to see commercial fusion plants. Progress is accelerating.
Excellent delivery and communication. Succinct af!
I don’t understand why anyone would build laser fusion machines. Perhaps someone will put me right, but my understanding is that the fast neutrons will turn laser lenses dark rather quickly, while I have never seen any discussion or diagrams as to how tritium breeding in a lithium blanket will fit into future devices.
Great news! Of course, the real question is which will become commercially viable first? Tokamak or Inertial?
Neither unless 1. You can find a way of producing tritium in enough quantities to guarantee that you can start a reactor, and 2. You can find a way of isotopically enriching lithium to increase its Li 6 content.
This is so exciting, but really disappointing that the general media aren't keeping the general public informed.. One day, science editors in general media will actually have science degrees and science-ignorant editors will listen to them !!!
Only STEM has the answers to the problem faced by Humanity !!!
Maybe the media is already tired of false hopes.
Gentile dottoressa, vorrei essere partecipe al suo entusiasmo per la riuscita del progetto, sia tokamak che inerziale, ma temo non sia così. Non si vuol tener presente il principio fondamentale della reazione deuterio-trizio, la quale non rientra nel concetto “spontaneo” e pertanto non in grado di sostenere “l’autosostentamento”. Pertanto, il continuo sostentamento della reazione con (plasma o altro), si scontra con il rendimento. Non ci si illuda con il processo solare, nel quale la continua reazione di fusione dell’idrogeno è sostenuta dalla spontaneità del forte campo gravitazionale. Cordiali saluti
Can i be a fan of dr Kesler?
"No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it.
This universal truth applies to all systems.
Energy, like time, flows from past to future" (2017).
While true in a sense, this ignores that a lot of the energy cost has already been paid before we start assembling things. Matter nicely assembled into hadrons, and then atoms... we can tap into that even if it is true that a greater or equal cost had to have been paid in the past. It's here now, the price was paid whether we exploit the resource or not.
OK , Take one gram of sand . How much energy was put into it initially? E=mc^2 Dj
If one looks at a hydrogen bond detonation, we can see the output of power released during a fusion reaction where the power input is relatively tiny versus the eventual output.
So excited!
Where is april? :D
Does anyone even remotely familiar with the particular nature and difficulties of inertial confinement seriously believe First Light's TOTALLY asymmetric implosion scheme has ANY chance whatsoever of achieving serious fusion rates, let lone ignition and burn??
Yes
Especially since it's incredibly easy and very, very cheap (compared to, for example, a tokamak)
It's shockingly easy to get Q=0.003 even with an amateur, home-built version of that device.
It’s a simple idea on the surface but it’s worth looking at a Matt Ferrell TH-cam video some nine months ago where he interviews Dr Hawker from FLF. In describing the system it seems quite complicated .......
Have you risked it all and said Fusion is Fusion and Fission is Fission before? 😊