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Interesting facts & a bit of blah, blah, blah about #fusionenergy engineering, futurism and clean tech #Not30yearsaway
Apr 10, 2023 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
Let's go through a brief summary of the

Foresight study on the worldwide developments in advancing #FusionEnergy, including the small scale private initiatives This study provides an analysis of the leading public and private fusion initiatives globally which has been used to generate 4 foresight scenarios for fusion development Image
Feb 17, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
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With insights from R. J. Hawryluk and @ScottCHsu The big picture looks like this Image
Dec 26, 2022 • 24 tweets • 6 min read
I've got the great one from @unitusviterbo and @renfusion (stellarator approach):
An optimized power conversion system for a stellarator-based nuclear fusion power plant
#FusionEnergy @martinkupp @formbar The most critical aspect of tokamak power plants is their pulsed duty cycle, which includes long plasma-burn phases followed by fast dwells to remove ashes and dusts from the reactor chamber and re-load the central solenoid
Sep 22, 2022 • 27 tweets • 6 min read
#ThursdayMoney 🧵

This week we got deep analysis of possible #FusionEnergy cost valuation with @JesseJenkins in the authors' list!🙀🙀🙀 While it is difficult to determine cost of a particular design when much of underlying fusion technology has yet to be developed, it is possible to set cost targets by determining the value of a design with a particular set of operational parameters in a simulated future scenario
Sep 6, 2022 • 27 tweets • 8 min read
#Backtoschool

Let's talk about fundamentals of #FusionEnergy: plasma energy balance and Lawson criterion Plasma energy balance is determined by the energy sources feeding the plasma and the energy losses cooling it down

For the plasma to remain stationary, the energy balance must be in equilibrium, i.e. the sources must compensate the losses
Sep 5, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Exascale supercomputers are exactly what current fusion research needs, explains Dr. Choongseok “CS” Chang, lead PI of multi-institutional multi-disciplinary U.S. SciDAC Partnership Center for High-fidelity Boundary Plasma Simulation, headquartered at @PPPLab One of the biggest current challenges is making accurate predictions about the processes that occur inside tokamak reactors, which use giant magnetic fields to confine plasma fuel in a torus shape to achieve the conditions necessary for fusion
Jul 20, 2022 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
#ScientificWednesday

Radiative pulsed L-mode operation in ARC-class reactors - fresh one from @CFS_energy and @MIT_Fusion Image Enhanced confinement & internal transport barriers create large pressure gradients providing significant bootstrap current fractions. High confinement time allows minimization of plasma current improving stability while also reducing external current drive requirements needed
Jul 19, 2022 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
#TuesdayMoney🧵
It's time to announce Second Quarter 2022 Results for #FusionEnergy

Funding, $M Image This quarter Eastern part of the world is leading 🌏🧭💵💴💶
Jun 13, 2022 • 30 tweets • 7 min read
With the recent number of articles regarding fuel crisis of #FusionEnergy it's the right time to start public discussion on it
#ScientificMonday

wired.com/story/nuclear-…

news.newenergytimes.net/2022/06/11/the… Right now, the tritium used in fusion experiments like @iterorg, and the smaller JET tokamak in the UK, comes from a very specific type of nuclear fission reactor called a heavy-water moderated reactor