Nuclear Fusion With AI – New Plant To Open Soon

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-19 13:02:20 | Updated at 2025-01-19 16:47:37 3 hours ago

Nuclear Fusion With AI – New Plant To Open Soon
Forbes ^ | 1/18/2025 | John Werner

Posted on 01/19/2025 4:52:03 AM PST by Pontiac

“Fusion is a reaction, and there’s a race right now to figure out the right machine to make that reaction happen here on Earth. The machine that would make the reaction would consume a fuel that everyone has access to - no need for uranium or plutonium and no nuclear waste - and would provide unlimited energy.”

Out of about 50 companies out there, CFS is the biggest. Mumgaard detailed advances that could lead to practical, production-level fusion processes. But challenges remain.

A reaction like this, he says, needs three things. It needs to be hot, dense and insulated.

Citing advances that outpace Moore’s law, Mumgaard suggested that a successful result in current research would lead to a plant that would outperform anything ever seen before. He explained that CFS purchased land on an inactive army base in Devens, Massachusetts, and created a commercially relevant demonstration facility called SPARC that uses high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets.

However, Mumgaard said his company announced the site on which CFS plans to build the world’s first grid-scale fusion power plant outside of Richmond, Virginia, bolstered by a collaboration with the utility, Dominion Energy Virginia. The proposed plant is expected to connect to the grid in the early 2030s..

Specifically, a team at Princeton University has been able to figure out how to use AI to understand and forecast plasma instabilities as the magnets work on the plasma.

In some ways, this is the most important application of artificial intelligence that you can think of. If it ends up saving our world from climate Armageddon, everything else is going to seem secondary.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...

TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science
KEYWORDS: fusion; power; science; virginia

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Of course they had to work Global Warming in to the article.

1 posted on 01/19/2025 4:52:03 AM PST by Pontiac

To: Pontiac

Another source of Nuclear Fusion:

2 posted on 01/19/2025 4:58:45 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)

To: Pontiac

From the article --- " ' Investors are in it for the long haul, with the capital to see it through,' he [ CEO ] said."

A "demonstration" plant for billions sounds rather like "send money."

Remember Solyndra as "the future."

For wjat it's worth, almost 60 years ago, I saw the mockup of the plasma toroid project, and "hopes." Now with Lawrence-Livermore and other competitors, it is liekly someone will try to patent ( or trademarl ) some crucial little bit to keep getting paid a while. SSDD? We'll see.

To: Yo-Yo

The first one on Earth I think.

And so much fun!

4 posted on 01/19/2025 5:00:43 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)

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