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Magnetic-Confinement Fusion Without the Magnets

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Despite these gains, though, traditional magnetic-confinement fusion is still years away from fulfilling nuclear fusion’s promise of generating abundant and carbon-free electricity. But tokamaks aren’t the only path to fusion power. The company produced its first fusion reactions the very next year. Seattle-based.

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Sandia team reports significant output from MagLIF fusion technique

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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z pulsed-power accelerator have produced a significant output of fusion neutrons, using a method fully functioning for only little more than a year. The method could be useful as a future energy source if the individual fusion pulses can be sequenced like the firing of an automobile’s cylinders.

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum —are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. Here are the 10 most popular AI articles that Spectrum published in 2023, ranked by the amount of time people spent reading them.

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Video Friday: $2.6 Billion

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This article proposes a novel freeform and truss-structured modular self-reconfigurable robot called FreeSN, containing node and strut modules. This release helps maintenance teams tap into the power of AI with new software capabilities and Spot enhancements.

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Explosive Power Beats Even Moore’s Law

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And then came an entirely new class of explosives, those exploiting nuclear fission and fusion. hydrogen (or fusion) bomb, tested in 1954, was equivalent to 15 megatons of TNT (63 petajoules). This article appears in the July 2022 print issue as “A Moore’s Law—for Bombs.”. The bomb that exploded over. The most powerful U.S.

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Fine-Tuning the Factory: Simulation App Helps Optimize Additive Manufacturing Facility

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This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. One promising way to meet modern industrial challenges is by using additive manufacturing (AM) processes, such as powder bed fusion and other emerging techniques. By contrast, the metal powder bed fusion process (Ref.

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Opinion: How India can move from Level 2 to Level 3 autonomy of cars and beyond – ET Auto

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Moving from Level 2 to 3 To move from Level 2 to Level 3 cars, India needs to embrace advanced technologies such as sensor fusion, AI, ML, and improved connectivity. Sensor fusion combines data from various sensors like Radar and LiDAR to create a comprehensive view of the vehicle’s surroundings.

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