There’s hope yet: Clean energy advances that inspired us in 2023

The world needs gargantuan amounts of clean energy moving forward, making this an area of colossal and growing opportunity for disruptive innovations. Here are some of the fascinating energy ideas and technologies that made us most hopeful in 2023.Cont… Continue reading There’s hope yet: Clean energy advances that inspired us in 2023

Tantalum cold spray boosts potential of fusion reactor chambers

The insides of nuclear fusion reactors are violent and chaotic places. A new cold-spray coating can take the heat and also trap some rogue hydrogen particles at the same time, potentially making for smaller, better plasma chambers.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading Tantalum cold spray boosts potential of fusion reactor chambers

Japan’s JT-60SA Generates First Plasma As World’s Largest Superconducting Tokamak Fusion Reactor

Japan’s JT-60SA fusion reactor project announced first plasma in October of this year to denote the successful upgrades to what is now the world’s largest operational, superconducting tokamak fusion reactor. …read more Continue reading Japan’s JT-60SA Generates First Plasma As World’s Largest Superconducting Tokamak Fusion Reactor

World’s largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up

The world’s largest and most advanced tokamak fusion reactor has gone online as the EU/Japanese 370-tonne JT-60SA reactor was fired up for the first time during an inauguration ceremony in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, Sci… Continue reading World’s largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up

Laser fusion reactors could make their own fuel pellets in a flash

As the question of how to make a laser fusion reactor practical rises, scientists at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) have come up with a way for fusion lasers to essentially manufacture their own fuel pellets.Continu… Continue reading Laser fusion reactors could make their own fuel pellets in a flash

Helion to supply Microsoft with fusion power by 2028, or pay penalties

In an outrageously audacious move, Washington-based fusion power startup Helion has signed the world’s first fusion power supply deal, promising to deliver Microsoft at least 50 megawatts of clean fusion power by 2028, or pay financial penalties.Contin… Continue reading Helion to supply Microsoft with fusion power by 2028, or pay penalties

Tokamak Energy unveils images of fusion power plant slated for 2030s

Tokamak Energy has released the first images of what its commercial fusion power plant, which it says would safely generate enough electricity to power 50,000 homes in the 2030s, would look like.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, ScienceTags: Nuclear Fu… Continue reading Tokamak Energy unveils images of fusion power plant slated for 2030s