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A fusion startup lit bulbs with electricity pulled straight from plasma

A fusion company has made a few light bulbs glow by converting plasma straight into electricity for the very first time. The ...
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Nuclear Fusion Startup Transforms Plasma Energy Directly Into Electricity In First For Private Sector

The achievement shows kinetic energy from charged exhaust particles can be converted into useful electricity, but it's still not a working commercial reactor.
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China’s EAST artificial sun fired plasma past its usual limit, a step toward scalable fusion power

Researchers operating China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, known as EAST, have sustained plasma at densities 30 to 65 percent above the reactor’s normal operating limit while keeping ...

X-pinch plasma achieves radial proton acceleration for crisp imaging

Plasma pinches: From pursuits of nuclear fusion to an attractive point source of accelerated protons for proton radiography.

Advanced System for Simultaneous, Long-duration, Multi-point Plasma Measurement Developed in Japan

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Kyoto University’s Institute of Advanced Energy, and the National Institute for Fusion ...

A Tiny Chemical Trick Could Lead to Much More Powerful Computer Chips

A new plasma chemistry breakthrough could help manufacturers build the next generation of smaller, faster, and more powerful ...

Realta Fusion generates electricity directly from a fusion reaction, an apparent first

Realta Fusion showed it could generate electricity from a fusion reaction, no steam turbine required.

Thea Energy Accelerates Fusion Energy with Helios Power Plant Digital Twin and AI Surrogate Models in Collaboration with NVIDIA, Synopsys, Argonne National Laboratory, and ...

The collaboration builds the first digital twin of a stellarator fusion power plant and leverages world leading AI, physics, and engineering for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission KEARNY, ...

Inside the race to power AI data centers with fusion energy — and the surprise detours along the way

While some tech giants are looking to the stars for nearly limitless clean electricity, the actual path to commercial fusion ...
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Flame plasma pyrolysis transforms wet coffee into biofuel in 90 secs

Humans drink approximately 400 billion cups of coffee annually, leaving behind 18 million tonnes of wet coffee grounds, ...