Fusion - Everlasting and Clean Energy
Series produced by ABCtech Media Productions
The Next Question asks provocative questions about new, emerging and disruptive technologies, their potential impacts on our lives and their broader impacts on the world around us.
This series explores the subject of fusion energy.
There’s an old joke about fusion power (energy created by fusing atoms) - it’s been ten years away for the last fifty years. But this year saw a major breakthrough at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, California. For the first time, scientists were able to get more energy from a fusion reaction than they had put in.The potential is staggering - the primary fuel component, deuterium, is present in all the water on Earth. The oceans contain enough of it to fuel our global civilization for literally billions of years. The question is when? The best predictions now are that, at current funding, fusion reactors will be in operation by the 2050s. But note those words: “at current funding”. The United States, one of the leaders in the field, will spend less than $500 million... Show full description
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