The announcement of American scientists that I managed to produce a positive energy balance from Nuclear fusion It revives hopes that humanity will one day be able to solve the energy problem.
in this time Technical hurdles abound Any exploitation of fusion that ‘produces’ energy within stars is deferred to the future. However, the Achievement of American Scientistswill pave the way for major investments in this sector with its huge prospects.
for 2022, such as Bloomberg notesInvestors will pump more than a billion dollars into the market. Although that’s less than it was in 2021, when it’s over $2.6 billion, it’s three times what it was in 2020. So the relevant “market” is ready to open up and take in large sums, perhaps after it’s over. The matter for the first time in the technological optimization solution. previously About 10 startups, each with different approachesare working on the technology and engineering problems posed by the merger and they already have a funding flow.
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On December 5, 2022, a team from the Department of Energy @employee Making history by achieving fusion ignition.
This breakthrough will change the future of clean power and America’s national defense forever. pic.twitter.com/hFHWbmCNQJ
– US Department of Energy (ENERGY) December 13, 2022
What does discovery mean?
According to the Department of Energy, the experiment took place on December 5, and for the first time LLNL scientists succeeded in producing a net energy gain from the fusion of two lighter hydrogen atoms into a heavier one. Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, said the experiment was “a great example of what we can achieve with tenacity.” Fusion is the reaction that powers the sun, and scientists have been trying to achieve it on Earth for decades.
This was said by nuclear scientists outside the LLNL laboratory where the experiment took place This achievement is an important stepbut there is still work to be done So much for the merger to become commercially viable. Tony Raulston, a nuclear energy expert at the University of Cambridge, estimates that the energy production in the experiment was only 0.5% of the energy needed to start the laser in the first place. “So we can say that this result is a success for science. But there is still a long way to go from producing useful, abundant and clean energy.”commented.
The The electricity industry, for its part, was greeted with caution This progress, but with the emphasis that achieving transformational fusion of energy should not slow down efforts to promote other alternatives such as solar energy, wind energy and nuclear fission. It’s the first step that tells us, ‘Yeah, it’s not just a fantasy, it can be done, in theory,'” said Andrew Sunder, technology specialist at EPRI, a nonprofit energy research and development organization.
What is fusion?
As I mentioned The New York Times It is a thermonuclear reaction that supplies energy to stars in the universe when hydrogen (H) atoms collide and unite to form helium (He) atoms. The mass of a helium (He) atom is slightly less than the sum of the masses of the two hydrogen (H) atoms required to form it, and this difference in mass is released as energy.
It is the process by which the nuclei of light atoms, such as hydrogen, are joined to the heavier nucleus, releasing a huge amount of energy. However, fusion requires huge amounts of temperature and pressure.
The revolutionary achievement of the Americans that was announced yesterday is that for the first time more energy was produced than was required for the experiment, which cost more than 3 billion dollars. A pepper-sized hydrogen “capsule” produces enough energy to heat a few liters of water. The experiment was a test for how to find ways to exploit fusion in the future.
Researchers’ goals
The news that abundant energy can be produced brings smiles not only to businessmen active in related fields, but also to scientists, for two reasons.
First, the energy of nuclear fusion lasts a long time and is not required in large quantities. Thus, one cup of hydrogen can provide a century of energy for household needs.
Then the second reason is that it does not burden the environment, because it does not emit pollutants, such as carbon or radioactive waste. For example, if it could be applied to global climates in one day, the issue of climate change from human-caused pollution would “go away,” because the majority of pollutants come from energy.
Scientists know, despite their optimistic notions, that it will take decades before nuclear fusion energy production becomes fully and universally efficient. The first large-scale tests are expected in 2033, but they’ll double in 2050. Then there’s the problem of climate change, where while plentiful energy will “untie humanity,” even then, problems may emerge that will preoccupy The eye of the eye. From abundant energy production like resource scarcity.
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