Great video on the Tokamak
This video explains the tokamak and ITER very well. Thanks to Derek for pointing it out.
Contenders
Who are the candidates in the race for fusion energy?
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Tour the Future of Fusion in Google Earth
Fusion is already spanning the globe with a diversity of research. In this Google Earth tour, blast off from New York to Paris and onward to the south of France, where Cadarache Forest gives way to the vast scope of Iter, the international megaproject that may lead to fusion power into the grid by 2040.
...Then swing back past Lady Liberty to where a more modest effort is cranking the heat up to a billion degrees. Here not far from Edison’s labs, the FoFu-1 dense plasma focus and its armament of instrumentation could determine in the next year the scientific feasibility of net energy from a very different and even cleaner fusion approach. Learn more with a final landing at the Googleplex itself, where the now-in-progress experiment was outlined in a Tech Talk by fusion scientist Eric Lerner.
Size Matters: Tokamak, Polywell and DPF
A short animation by Torulf Greek illustrates the scale of various fusion reactors.
The Stagecoach and the Spaceship
Not all fusion is created equal, but few are aware of this. Here we compare conventional fusion (“the stagecoach”) with aneutronic fusion (“the spaceship”).
ICC recap and Bill Gates TED talk review
On February 16-19, PPPL hosted the ICC Workshop (Innovative Confinement Concepts). This coincided with Bill Gates’ TED talk, in which he proposed nuclear fission innovations as a solution to the world energy+CO2 crisis. These two events can be juxtaposed with proactive implications for Fusion research strategy.
Contenders…
...for “energy of the future”
The goal of the “Contender” section is to enable us to compare different energy candidates. We are most interested in the contenders for a “fusion prize.” However, we will compare a range of energy approaches for a broad perspective on humanity’s energy options.
Laberge’s General Fusion
MTF-Magnetized target fusion.
Give his team six to 10 years and a few hundred million dollars, he says, and his company, General Fusion, will give you a nuclear-fusion power plant.
Brzosko Reports Repeatable Functioning of DPF
Dr. Jan Brzosko reports that the DPF can function in a highly repeatable manner.
Dr. Robert Bussard, 1928-2007
The Focus Fusion Society regrets the October 6th passing of pioneer fusion researcher Dr. Robert Bussard.
