Machinery of an Energy Dream Fusion, the process that powers the sun, is the forever dream of energy scientists — safe, nonpolluting and almost boundless. Even here at Lawrence Livermore Nat... Read more
The secrets to its success are lasers, magnets and a big pinch The Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico discharges the most intense pulses of electrical current on Earth.... Read more
Cheap, practical fusion may be closer than you think. Nuclear fusion is 30 years away, and always will be. That’s the refrain we’ve heard, again and again for decades. And yet, q... Read more
Researchers at a US lab have passed a crucial milestone on the way to their ultimate goal of achieving self-sustaining nuclear fusion. Harnessing fusion – the process that powers the S... Read more
Not Quite Yet, but in the Journal “Physics of Plasmas,” Researchers from National Ignition Facility Show Just How Close We’ve Come The dream of igniting a self-sustained fu... Read more
Science can be mightier than the Sword In 1969, a great shadow was cast over the United States. That shadow, however, was not one of gloom. Instead of evoking the absence of light, this shad... Read more
“The century’s biggest and most difficult scientific undertaking,” While laser fusion has been touted as the Holy Grail of sustainable energy, set to free the world from the en... Read more
Venture capitalists and funding agencies aim to get some bang for their alternative fusion bucks, but a lot of unknowns remain When it comes to radical energy solutions, an extreme long shot... Read more
Image via Wikipedia To avoid Armageddon, we may have to invoke Armageddon. You know, the Bruce Willis version. That’s the opinion of David Dearborn, anyway, who says we may need to tap... Read more
Image via Wikipedia A major hurdle to producing fusion energy using lasers has been swept aside, results in a new report show. The controlled fusion of atoms – creating conditions lik... Read more