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The Art of the Magnetic Bottle: How to Hold a Miniature Star

So, we’ve established (look at Why we need hot plasma for fusion reaction?) the "simple" part: to get clean, limitless energy, we just need to recreate the heart of a sun on Earth. Easy, right? Except for the minor detail that our "fuel" is a plasma so scorching it would vaporize any physical container you…

How fusion works?

Engineering, Fusion, Physics, Popular

The energy of a nucleus can be tapped in two ways: by splitting large nuclei into smaller ones (fission) or by combining small nuclei into larger ones (fusion). The first method yields atomic or nuclear (fission) energy, while the second provides fusion energy, which is essentially stellar power. This is the way the sun and…