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Welcome to Fusion City, USA

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But here, and in an even more anonymous office park nearby, startup Zap Energy is trialing a prototype reactor that is already producing high-energy neutrons from nuclear fusion—if not yet enough to send power back into the grid. Zap isn’t the only fusion company fishing in aviation’s talent pool.

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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. Welcome to Fusion City, USA At Helion Energy, workers build a section of the company’s Polaris fusion reactor. Number one?

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Ford and PlugShare partner on real-time charging station information

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Ford is partnering with PlugShare, an aggregator of public charge stations, to provide real-time charge station information to drivers of Ford’s plug-in vehicles. Ford’s MyFord Mobile smartphone app and Web portal now features a charging station finder powered by PlugShare.com. The MyFord Mobile Web portal is at [link].

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Volkswagen ID.7 makes its world premiere

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7 Pro will have a 77 kWh battery (gross: 82 kWh), with DC fast-charging capability of up to 170 kW. 7 Pro S (to be introduced at a later date for Europe) will be equipped with the latest Volkswagen battery with an energy content of 86 kWh (gross: 91 kWh) and up to 200 kW DC fast-charging capability. With this, the ID.7

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New ARPA-E program to award $40M to reduce fuel waste 10X from advanced nuclear reactors

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Nuclear power production, however, produces approximately 2,000 metric tons of used fuel each year that must be disposed and safely stored. Safeguards: Improvements in sensor and data fusion technologies that enable accurate and timely accounting of nuclear materials.

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

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million); Fusion Energy Sciences (US$10 million); High Energy Physics (US$17.9 New CO 2 reduction processes are required to efficiently convert biogas, biomass and stored CO 2 to usable fuels. Obstacles to the mass adoption of electric vehicles are range anxiety, charging time, inadequate charging infrastructure.

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