The Futureverse: Moonshots In the Making
Intelligence Squared: Business
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Nuclear Fusion Is the Future of Energy
Advances in science and technology are giving us hope that we will be able to recreate the processes that happens when stars like the sun create energy. To produce energy from fusion here on earth, a combination of hydrogen gases, juterium and tritium are heated to very high temperatures. The gas at those astonishing temperatures becomes a plasma, and the nuclei combine to form a helium nucleus and a neutron. One way to control the intens ly hot plasma is to use a powerful magnetic device known as a tocamac, a magnetic chamber shaped like a ring doughnut.
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