Nuclear Fusion by chepstowautosmart | on July 23, 2013 Nuclear fusion from Google, Lockheed, Draper Fisher Nuclear Fusion X marks a spot of fusion. Charles Chase describes how Lockheed Martin’s fusion device trumps huge government fusion projects in this photograph by venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson from a Google “Solve for X” event last week. Many people regard Nuclear Fusion power as the Holy Grail of energy because in theory it would provide a safe, endless power source. Nuclear Fusion mimics the process of the sun, hurling atoms together rather than splitting them apart as today’s nuclear fission technology does. But ever since scientists first began working on it in the 1950’s, it has remained 30-to-50 years away, because no one has figured out how to continuously harness more energy than they spend in creating Nuclear Fusion reactions. Large international government projects like ITER in France and NIF in Livermore, Calif. are nowhere near perfecting the technology on which they are spending considerable sums. ITER has a budget of around €13 billion ($17.3 billion), for instance. Nuclear Fusion Atomic again. VC Steve Jurvetson has been on the nuclear trail before. Here he is outside an accelerator-driven neutron source under construction at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, in 2004. The Fight for Nuclear Fusion A number of smaller, privately held and in some cases venture backed start-up companies have been tackling fusion using technologies different from those at the behemoths. Many of them have smaller fusion machines in mind, not like the 20-story “tokamak” that ITER is building, or the 3-football-field-long laser facility at NIF. The smaller fusion machines would have less capacity than the 1.5 gigawatt reactors that define nuclear fission new builds today, and thus could fit into the “modular” nuclear movement, auguring benefits like lower cost and transportability. As Jurvetson reports: “Lockheed is working on a compact 100MW high-Beta reactor…that should be about 2×2×4 meters. They hope to have a prototype working by 2017, to be able to meet global baseload energy demand by 2050, in time to have an impact on our climate.” Thank you for reading this blog on Nuclear Fusion! Written By AutoSmart Chepstow – Supplier of Water Fuel Cells https://facebook/ChepstowAutoSmart?fref=ts This entry was posted in Empower Network Tags: Alternative fuel, autosmart, chepstow, Free Energy, Global Warming, Nuclear Fusion, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Living
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