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LinkedInHere is an interesting development that quite a few of you shared with me: NASA's development of a pinched plasma fusion engine: Engine in development could cut Mars travel time to three months The reasoning behind the development is indicated by the title of the article itself: such an engine would cut travel time to our nearest most interesting celestial neighbor, Mars, by better than a half, thus also tremendously reducing the engineering problems of sustaining a human crew for a journey that could take 16-18 months using currently available technologies. But I want to draw your … [Read more...]
EUROPE’S FUSION PROJECT
September 17, 2011 By
Phys.org reported some rather interesting news a week ago, namely, that the Joint European Torus's most recent experiments in its wall-lining materials were successful, overcoming another hurdle in the development of fusion power: World\'s largest fusion device goes back to work The milestone, while underplayed in the article, was, if read closely and carefully, the testing of new materials to line the walls of the inside of the torus device, capable of withstanding the tremendous stresses and heat of the device when in operation. Previously, carbon-based materials had been used, … [Read more...]
…WELL WE CAN’T DO FUSION, BECAUSE WE DON’T HAVE IT…ER…WE DON’T, RIGHT?”
June 29, 2011 By
Well, as more and more nuclear reactors seem to be having cooling pumping station troubles or other such plumbing problems, the plaintive cry is "why don't we have fusion yet?" After all, it's clean, cheap, much less dangerous than fission reactors (...er, that's right isn't it?). Well we've invested billions in the last few decades on chaining up fusion reactions, and still no breakthrough. Or so we're told. Or is there? Well, consider the research expenditures, and the people doing it, in the following article, and see if something else jumps out at you: Can one idea be energy\'s … [Read more...]