Fusion Power Explained – Future or Failure
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The fundamental currency of our Universe is energy.It lights our homes,grows our food,powers our computers.We can get it lots of ways:burning fossil fuels,splitting atomsor sunlight striking photovoltaics.But there's a downside to everything.Fossil fuels are extremely toxic,nuclear waste is... well, nuclear waste,and there are not enough batteries to store sunlight for cloudy days yet.And yet, the Sun seems to have virtually limitless, free energy.Is there a way we could build a sun on Earth?Can we bottle a star?The Sun shines beacuse of nuclear fusion.In a nutshell - fusion is a thermonuclear process,meaning that the ingredients have to be incredibly hot, so hot,that the atoms are stripped of their electrons,making a plasma where nuclei and electronsbounce aroun...
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The fundamental currency of our Universe is energy.It lights our homes,grows our food,powers our computers.We can get it lots of ways:burning fossil fuels,splitting atomsor sunlight striking photovoltaics.But there's a downside to everything.Fossil fuels are extremely toxic,nuclear waste is... well, nuclear waste,and there are not enough batteries to store sunlight for cloudy days yet.And yet, the Sun seems to have virtually limitless, free energy.Is there a way we could build a sun on Earth?Can we bottle a star?The Sun shines beacuse of nuclear fusion.In a nutshell - fusion is a thermonuclear process,meaning that the ingredients have to be incredibly hot, so hot,that the atoms are stripped of their electrons,making a plasma where nuclei and electronsbounce aroun...
