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PPPL researchers find way to build high-temperature superconducting magnets for fusion devices

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Such powerful magnets would more easily fit within the tight space inside spherical tokamaks, which are shaped more like a cored apple than the doughnut-like shape of conventional tokamaks, and are being explored as a possible design for future fusion power plants. Collage by Kiran Sudarsanan).

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Fusion Fuel awarded €3.6m in grant funding for 1MW green hydrogen mobility project in Portugal

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Fusion Fuel has been awarded €3.6 Fusion Fuel had previously been awarded €36 million in C-5 funding for its “Sines Green Hydrogen Valley Alliance” consortium. The facility will also include an integrated hydrogen refueling station intended to serve light and heavy-duty commercial vehicles. Earlier post.)

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Welcome to Fusion City, USA

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A sleepy strip mall beside Boeing’s sprawling campus in Everett, WA isn’t necessarily where you’d expect to find technology promising to harness the power of the sun, release humanity from the grip of fossil fuels, and unlock an estimated US $40 trillion market. Zap isn’t the only fusion company fishing in aviation’s talent pool.

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Researchers propose method for eliminating damaging heat bursts in fusion device

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These ELMs can damage the reactor walls and must be controlled to develop reliable fusion power. Scientists have learned to tame these ELMs by applying spiraling rippled magnetic fields to the surface of the plasma that fuels fusion reactions.

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PPPL scientists proposes novel method for controlling fusion reactions

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Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a novel way to prevent magnetic bubbles, or islands, in plasma from interfering with fusion reactions—delivering a potential way to improve the performance of fusion energy devices. —Allan Reiman.

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DOE awards $125M to bring clean energy technologies to market

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million to 53 projects by 51 small businesses and entrepreneurs with phase II funding based on the initial success of their phase I awards, including follow-on awards to support projects closer to market. million); Fusion Energy Sciences (US$10 million); High Energy Physics (US$17.9 million); Fossil Energy (US$14.7

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Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid sedan EPA-rated at 108 MPGe city, 92 MPGe highway and 100 MPGe combined; Ford projects best hybrid sales quarter ever

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2013 Fusion Energi. The US Environmental Protection Agency has rated the new Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ) at up to 108 MPGe city, 92 MPGe highway and 100 MPGe combined (2.2, Fusion Energi is the Ford brand’s fifth electrified vehicle to launch in the past year—and its second plug-in hybrid after the C-MAX Energi.

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