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| Author | : Anthony Walker |
| Publisher | : Independently Published |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022-12-14 |
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Energizing Our World The use of fossil fuels contributes to global warming, while their abundant energy supports contemporary civilization. Production and CO2 emissions are both increasing. We use fossil fuels to generate 84% of the world's energy, including electricity. Instead, we may create power with no CO2 emissions and then extend the usage of clean electricity to replace combustion energy. We can solve energy poverty and avert climate disaster by producing abundant, inexpensive, 24-hour electric energy from fission. Everything should be electrified. Cars, trucks, and trains can all be powered by electricity. It has the potential to become the energy source for a worldwide clean economy. Make hydrogen from water and fuels for large vehicles and planes. Electrify the building's heating system. Allow for the development of new, zero-emission sectors such as electrolytic steel manufacturing. The Future of Fusion Energy shows how physical rules and the Earth's energy resources drive the present fusion effort, which is nearing its end. ITER, the world's largest research project and the world's largest fusion reactor, is approaching completion. Its success might spark global competition to build a power plant, while failure could push fusion back by decades. To that aim, this book describes how the results of ITER may be applied to create an economically viable power plant, as well as some of the other alternative fusion concepts. In this book, you'll discover: what is nuclear fusion and why does it matter? how fusion is different from fission? How could nuclear fusion eventually turn on the light in the house? why is the DOE's forthcoming announcement about a fusion reaction resulting in net energy gain important? Where does fusion take place? What are the next steps?
| Author | : Stephen O. Dean |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2013-01-05 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1461460379 |
Why has the clean, limitless energy promised by fusion always seemed just out of reach? Search for the Ultimate Energy Source: A History of the U.S. Fusion Energy Program, explains the fundamentals and concepts behind fusion power, and traces the development of fusion historically by decade—covering its history as dictated by US government policies, its major successes, and its prognosis for the future. The reader will gain an understanding of how the development of fusion has been shaped by changing government priorities as well as other hurdles currently facing realization of fusion power. Advance Praise for Search for the Ultimate Energy Source: “Dr. Dean has been uniquely involved in world fusion research for decades and, in this book, describes the complicated realities like few others possibly could.” -Robert L. Hirsch, a former director of the US fusion program, an Assistant Administrator of the US Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA); an executive at Exxon, Arco, and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI); and lead author of the book The Impending World Energy Mess (Apogee Prime Books, 2009). “In this book, Dr. Dean provides the many reasons why fusion has progressed more slowly than many had hoped. Budget is usually cited as the culprit, but policy is equally to blame. Facilities have been closed down before their jobs were done—or in some cases, even started. It seems this situation has become endemic in fusion, and if one thinks about it, in other nationally important Science and Technology initiatives as well.” -William R. Ellis, a former scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Associate Director of Research at the US Naval Research Laboratory, a vice president at Ebasco Services and at Raytheon, and chair of the US ITER Industry Council and the US ITER Industrial Consortium.
| Author | : Alain Bécoulet |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2023-09-19 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0262547287 |
A concise and accessible explanation of the science and technology behind the domestication of nuclear fusion energy. Nuclear fusion research tells us that the Sun uses one gram of hydrogen to make as much energy as can be obtained by burning eight tons of petroleum. If nuclear fusion—the process that makes the stars shine—could be domesticated for commercial energy production, the world would gain an inexhaustible source of energy that neither depletes natural resources nor produces greenhouse gases. In Star Power, Alan Bécoulet offers a concise and accessible primer on fusion energy, explaining the science and technology of nuclear fusion and describing the massive international scientific effort to achieve commercially viable fusion energy. Bécoulet draws on his work as Head of Engineering at ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) to explain how scientists are trying to “put the sun in a box.” He surveys the history of nuclear power, beginning with post–World War II efforts to use atoms for peaceful purposes and describes how energy is derived from fusion, explaining that the essential principle of fusion is based on the capacity of nucleons (protons and neutrons) to assemble and form structures (atomic nuclei) in spite of electrical repulsion between protons, which all have a positive charge. He traces the evolution of fusion research and development, mapping the generation of electric current though fusion. The ITER project marks a giant step in the development of fusion energy, with the potential to demonstrate the feasibility of a nuclear fusion reactor. Star Power offers an introduction to what may be the future of energy production.
| Author | : J. Reece Roth |
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| Total Pages | : 726 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Science |
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| Author | : L. J. Reinders |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2021-07-31 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 3030747344 |
This book gives an accessible overview of the 70-year history of nuclear fusion research and the vain attempts to construct an energy-generating nuclear fusion reactor. It shows that even in the most optimistic scenario nuclear fusion, despite the claims of its proponents and the billions being spent on research, will not be able to make a sizable contribution to the energy mix in this century. The important consequence is that nuclear fusion will not be a factor in combating climate change, since the race for carbon-free energy will have been won or lost long before the first nuclear fusion power station comes on line.
| Author | : A. A. Harms |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9789812380333 |
This textbook accommodates the two divergent developmental paths which have become solidly established in the field of fusion energy: the process of sequential tokamak development toward a prototype and the need for a more fundamental and integrative research approach before costly design choices are made.Emphasis is placed on the development of physically coherent and mathematically clear characterizations of the scientific and technological foundations of fusion energy which are specifically suitable for a first course on the subject. Of interest, therefore, are selected aspects of nuclear physics, electromagnetics, plasma physics, reaction dynamics, materials science, and engineering systems, all brought together to form an integrated perspective on nuclear fusion and its practical utilization.The book identifies several distinct themes. The first is concerned with preliminary and introductory topics which relate to the basic and relevant physical processes associated with nuclear fusion. Then, the authors undertake an analysis of magnetically confined, inertially confined, and low-temperature fusion energy concepts. Subsequently, they introduce the important blanket domains surrounding the fusion core and discuss synergetic fusion-fission systems. Finally, they consider selected conceptual and technological subjects germane to the continuing development of fusion energy systems.
| Author | : Daniel Clery |
| Publisher | : Abrams |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2014-07-29 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1468310410 |
How physicists are trying to solve our energy problems—by unlocking the secrets of the sun: “Explain[s] cutting-edge science with remarkable lucidity.” —Booklist This revelatory book tells the story of the scientists who believe the solution to the planet’s ills can be found in the original energy source: the Sun itself. There, at its center, the fusion of 620 million tons of hydrogen every second generates an unfathomable amount of energy. By replicating even a tiny piece of the Sun’s power on Earth, we can secure all the heat and energy we would ever need. The simple yet extraordinary ambition of nuclear-fusion scientists has garnered many skeptics, but, as A Piece of the Sun makes clear, large-scale nuclear fusion is scientifically possible—and perhaps even preferable to other options. Clery argues passionately and eloquently that the only thing keeping us from harnessing this cheap, clean and renewable energy is our own shortsightedness. “Surprisingly sprightly…Clery walks readers through the history of fusion study, from Lord Kelvin, Albert Einstein and a large cast of peculiar physicists, to all manner of international politics—e.g., the darts and feints of the Cold War, the braces applied by OPEC in the wake of the 1973 war among Israel, Egypt and Syria. Clery negotiates the hard science with aplomb.” —Kirkus Reviews “A timely perspective on truly urgent science.” —Booklist “Ultimately, Clery argues that developing a source of energy that won’t damage the climate—or ever run out—is worth striving for.” —Publishers Weekly
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| Total Pages | : 68 |
| Release | : 1978 |
| Genre | : Controlled fusion |
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| Author | : Joan Lisa Bromberg |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780262021807 |
For more than thirty years, the prospect of unlimited fusion energy has attracted scientists and the public. Joan Lisa Bromberg's book documents the history of the American magnetic fusion reactor program. It is also a lively account that will inform interested citizens of limited technical background who are concerned with the nation's energy strategy. The book carries the story from the program's inception under the auspices of the Atomic Energy Commission in 1951 to its operations under the then-new Department of Energy in 1978. Fusion concentrates on the four federally funded laboratories where most of the money has been spent (about $2 billion so far): Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and Princeton. It recounts the crucial experiments along the way - the ones that succeeded, the ones that failed, the ones that showed promise. And it explains and diagrams the various magnetic configurations and devices that were developed and tested: the stellarator, the pinch, the mirror, the tokamak. With the government and the public constantly looking over the scientists' shoulders, it is no surprise that research directions were heavily influenced by extrascientific pressures: the major decisions in fusion research have always emerged from a medley of technical, institutional, and political considerations. The intermingling of science and politics is demonstrated in specific detail. The magnetic fusion reactor project is, of course, ongoing. Latest target date for producing commercial power: 2050. Estimated total cost: $15 billion. Dr. Bromberg has written extensively on topics in the history of modern science.
| Author | : E. Panarella |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 592 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1461558670 |
