Clean power
Published on December 29, 2020 |
By Steve Hanley
December 29, 2020 By Steve Henley
There are two types of nuclear energy – fission and fusion. Fashion is one of the things we are most familiar with. It consists of split atoms – the most common isotopes of uranium – in a process that releases large amounts of heat. It is used to turn water into steam after heating which is then used to run a fairly conventional turbine to generate electricity.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems Tokmak. Credit: C.F.S.
Fusion is a barrier to disintegration. Instead of splitting the atoms, it pushes them together under extreme heat and pressure. In theory, the result is more heat than is needed to keep the process going and more heat can be used to turn water into steam, which is then used to run a fairly conventional turbine to generate electricity.
Many people think that humanity will find “science is our way” in the global heating crisis, although many scientists and scientists have been engaged in the latter, calling them charlatans, liars, and so on. Science has become an epithelium. “You Gidankin Fofrev. You are nothing but low down Scientific The idea is to steal money from hard working taxpayers to draw your own pockets! ”Is how the conservative media usually puts it.
Despite the ambiguity on science by the flaming Jacknaps surrounding the current so-called leader of the free world, the group of self-scientists – the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, escaped from the insane asylum on the banks of the Charles River to study technology. Has found a way to build a fusion reactor that is compact and more or less affordable. That is, it will cost less than a fleet of aircraft carriers. His work was recently published in the Journal of Plasma Physics.
They have formed a company called Commonwealth Fusion Systems to build the first fusion reactor based on their new research. It will be called Spark (which says scientists have no sense of humor?) And the company claims it will be completed and will supply electricity to the grid by the end of this decade.
The thing about fusion is that, according to the Guardian, the process does not take place until the isotopes of hydrogen are heated to hundreds of millions of degrees. As you can imagine, something that is hot cannot be contained in a normal vessel made of stainless steel, concrete or kryptonite. In fact, the only way to accommodate it is inside Tokmak, an ultra-powerful magnetic field device. That’s the part that has stabilized atomic physicists so far. The people of Spark claim to have invented a new magnet technology that will allow them to create a relatively affordable compact talkmak.
We are all familiar with fusion reactors, as it turned out. The bright light in the sky that we call the sun is in fact a really big fusion reactor. It has been doing its job for billions of years and will continue to do so for a long time, hoping that humans will not be able to find a way to destroy it in a way that would destroy almost everything on earth. There is fusion power That, The Holy Grail, this Sign in non .Raja. In theory, it is capable of producing emission-free electricity at least to a limited extent forever. Homo sapiens He can understand the word.
Bob Mumgard, CEO, CEO, “This is a solid public assumption that when we build a spark, the machine will get clean energy and high gains from plasma. It is a necessary condition for building a fusion power plant, for which the world has been waiting for decades. Installed plasma The combination of physics, newer magnets and reduced scales opens up new possibilities for timely commercial blending energy to make a difference in climate change. Let’s work. “
The company says, “CFS and MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center are now also developing advanced magnets that will allow CFS to build significantly smaller and lower-cost fusion power plants. The collaboration is on track to demonstrate 20 successful Tesla, large-bore magnets in 2021. This magnet test, the first of its kind in the world, opens the door to a widely known transformation for commercial fusion energy. The magnet will then be used in Spark, which is on its way to construction in 2021 and will show a net energy release gain from fusion for the first time in history by 2025. Spark will pave the way for the first commercial practical fusion power plant called ARC. ”
At a time when wind and solar energy are increasing by leaps and bounds, why do we need fusion power? According to Bob Mumgard, the goal is not to use fusion to replace solar and wind, but to complement them. “There are things that are just as difficult to do with renewable, industrial scale industries, such as power generation or manufacturing in big cities,” he says. The Guardian. “This is where fusion can come from.”
Martin Greenwald, one of the senior scientists at the SPARC project, adds that the key motivation for the ambitious timeline is meeting the energy needs of the warming world. “Fusion seems to be one of the possible solutions to our immediate environmental catastrophe. What we’ve really done is to combine existing science with new content to open up new possibilities, “he says.
Of particular note is the climate plan presented by the incoming President Biden, which includes investments in advanced nuclear technology. Commonwealth Fusion Systems has attracted investors from a variety of supporters, including Breakthrough Energy Ventures, founded by Bill Gates, and the Norwegian-owned energy company Equinor. “Equinor is a comprehensive energy energy company and we will continue to invest in the transformational and potential game of zero carbon energy energy technology,” he said in a statement to the press reported by Recharge News. We are investing in Fusion and CFS because we believe in Technol & G and the company. ”
Does the power of fusion save us? Maybe. It seems to have arrived yet but again at one point came the plane, the microwave oven and the cell phones. According to legend, on New Year’s Eve, 1899, U.S. The head of the patent office fee told a colleague, “Anything that could have been discovered is now discovered.” Maybe we would be wise to keep an open mind on this fusion energy content.
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Steve Henley writes about the interface between technology and durability from his home in Florida and Connecticut or anywhere else that singularity can lead him. You can follow him Twitter But not on any social media platform run by evil orals like Facebook.
