A few months ago, I saw an email asking for contributions to Fusion in Europe, the magazine produced by EuroFusion,…
This was my first visit to the ITER site to meet with our collaborators, so I thought I’d record a few impressions whilst I wait for my plane at Marseilles airport.
A new paper shows that an attractive form of nuclear fusion is more practical than previously thought. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it’s still hard!
I’ve been taking the U-Bahn to work for the last few days as my bike has been broken, so every day I get to walk passed the IPP library. Prominently displayed on a little stand, all alone in the middle of a table, was a new book with the bold title “The Future of Fusion Energy”. My interest was piqued, even more so as the book is written by two fusion researchers [Jason Parisi and Justin Ball] rather than science journalists – I was interested to see how they tried to make this complex topic accessible to the general public.
What a long post. There is a bit about dragons at the end! This is the rather grandiose title that…
When I accused the Sun of cheating, I referred to the two main ways of attempting nuclear fusion: either using…
At the energies necessary for fusion to take place, matter is usually in the plasma state – negatively charged electrons…
One criticism of fusion as an energy source that I particularly enjoy is this: “We already have a perfectly good…
Fusion is transmutation. Unlike the alchemists of old, the goal is not to turn base metals into gold, but light…