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Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator

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billion ITER reactor under construction since 2010 in the hills of southern France—use an internal current flowing through the plasma to help to shape the magnetic field. According to the lab’s lore, Spitzer came up with the idea while riding a ski lift at Aspen Mountain in 1951. Many magnetic-confinement designs—including the $24.5

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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will demonstrate its low-cost ICE-31 solvent with enhanced stability technology on a flue gas slipstream at Los Medanos Energy Center, a commercially dispatched natural gas combined-cycle power plant in Pittsburg, CA. RTI International plans to develop two different novel materials, metal organic frameworks (i.e.,

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A First Timer’s Guide to Skiing in Japan

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The price of an international flight is easily outweighed by the relatively low cost of access to endless powder and excellent facilities. Its actually cheaper for me to fly to Japan and go skiing there than to spend a week at a place like Aspen or Vail, Ms. With the U.S.

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