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Fusion Energy: The Materials Challenge - Ep 119: Dr Aneeqa Khan

Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change

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Using Magnets to Combine a Doughnut Shaped Device

In the sun there's a lot of pressure to huge body of plasma and particles or swirling around. We don't have that same kind of pressure on earth so basically because there's not that pressure we have to compensate for that by having to just hot it in the center of the sun. And as I mentioned before, you can use magnets to combine that kind of a flip doughnut shaped device which is called the taucomant. There's also a magnetic heat-confined fusion something called a stellarator which kind of looks like salwood or valley drew a doughnut. The idea is that in the future when you generate kind of the heat energy you can extract that from the device

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