fusion power
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Nuclear Fusion Machine Smashes Energy Record, Clean Energy Now ‘Closer Than Ever’
A UK-based nuclear fusion collaboration just produced a record amount of energy, a refreshing dose of good news in humankind’s quest for cleaner energy sources. The Joint European Torus facility, or JET, produced just over 69 megajoules of heat. A brief distillation of nuclear fusion: It is a reaction by which atomic nuclei fuse, turning…
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Nuclear Fusion Scientists Successfully Recreate Net Energy Gain
While the U.S. Department of Energy announced a successful test in December, July’s experiment reportedly produced even more energy.
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Are Lightsabers Theoretically Possible?
I’ve never been a Star Wars fan. I’ve seen only one of the movies, The Phantom Menace, and I was eight years old at the time. And yet even I, as a child, owned and played with one of those little lightsaber toys, as have millions of children before and after me (not to mention…
