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MIT researchers make great discovery regarding nuclear fusion

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MIT researchers make great strides to nuclear fusion produced energy on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak’s final day of operation. The Alcator C-Mod tokamak reactor has been running for 23 years. (Photo from MIT)

 

With a society now highly conscious of what it puts into the environment, clean energy is more vital than ever. The solution has been in front of us for a long time, nuclear fusion. It’s the ideal source because it’s clean, carbon free, and has the potential to produce unlimited amount of energy. So what’s the problem? It’s not easy to simulate conditions. It needs a mass of plasma to be still as it churns more than 50 million degrees in a chamber that’s about as big as your living room. The process is also costly, which is why we’re close yet so far from nuclear fusion energy. But a team of researchers at MIT have made a breakthrough that can get us one step closer.

 

The team raised the pressure of the plasma housed in the Alcator C-Mod tokamak nuclear fusion reactor to 2.05 atmospheres, which is 15 percent higher than previously achieved with prior experiments. This is a critical step; raising the pressure and temperature is the key to creating a sustainable nuclear fusion power plant; the higher the pressure the more energy the reactor produces than uses up.

 

Here’s the kicker, this discovery was made on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak’s final day of operation. It’s been in use for 23 years, but had to be shut down by budget limitations to favor building new facilities. Why did it take so long to make this discovery? We’ll probably never know. There’s a good chance the team decided to go for it since the reactor was closing in the first place. Still, it’s quite a record and one that puts us closer to nuclear fusion produced energy. Many are predicting the record will stay in place at least until the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) opens in the south of France in 2032. Perhaps the new facility will be able to produce even better results. But we won’t know until it opens for business.

 

Though this is great news, it’s also kind of disappointing. You begin to wonder why this wasn’t previously tested. Imagine the possibility of heaving clean air for years. But no amount and questioning and frustration will bring on any answers. If anything the possibility of actually having nuclear fusion produced energy is better than not having it at all.

 

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  • in reply to anton_stunk

    Hi Anton,

     

    Political reference and sarcasm aside, you really should do more research.

     

    There is no evidence that an H-bomb does any fusion.  It is an implosion initiated fission event.

     

    A star creates radioactive and stable elements as part of the fusion process.  So the Sun does contain fissionable materiel.  It is making it as we speak.

     

    All of the photons and small mass objects ejected by a star that you think are created energy, are all artifacts of stellar fusion, all of which used more energy to make than they represent after fusion.

     

    Contrary to popular belief, a star does not begin fusion with Hydrogen.  It takes a long time before a star actually makes protons, which are the key component of Hydrogen.

     

    The protons, not Hydrogen, are fused to make Deuterium nuclei.

    The Deuterium and protons fuse to make Tritium nuclei.

    Two Deuterium nuclei make a Helium nuclei, which is a single fused sphere with the equivalent to four protons in mass.  Not a conjunction of two protons and two neutrons.

     

    So looks are very deceiving, especially when the science does not work.

    A star converts kinetic energy to potential energy.  It creates all of the mass objects in the; universe.

     

    Eventually the stars will no longer possess enough mass to conduct fusion.  By then, the Universe will have begun to collapse back into a singularity at its core.

     

    As for nuclear fusion experiments here on earth, after sixty years, how many times must you run the same experiment and get the same answer before you question your fusion model?

     

    When I took a fresh look at the data, I realized the truth about fusion.  It does NOT produce excess energy.  It only converts kinetic energy into potential energy.

    Only nuclear fission can release kinetic energy from atomic material.  They are Yin and Yang processes.

     

    You will not see a working fusion power generator.  Ever.

     

    DAB

  • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

     

    Looks pretty exo energetic to me, the sun also doesn't contain any fission-suitable matter. Only a lot of hydrogen, which with times get fusioned to

     

    Where did you do your research, at trump university?

  • Hi Cabe,,

     

    Unfortunately, nuclear Fusion will never generate excess energy.

    When I did my analysis for my new stellar model, I discovered that the Fusion process is endo-energetic.  That means that it converts kinetic energy into potential energy resulting in a net energy loss.

     

    Only nuclear fission can release that potential energy and turn it back into kinetic energy.

     

    So all of the experiments since 1970 are correct, there is no break even point.

     

    So we need to stop wasting money on these fusion experiments as they are a dry well.

     

    DAB