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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. —Yuhu Zhai, a principal engineer at PPPL and lead author.
Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., More and more people are becoming interested in it.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $46 million in funding ( DE-FOA-0002809 ) to eight companies advancing designs and research and development for fusion power plants. This funding is from the Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program. The awardees are: Commonwealth Fusion Systems (Cambridge, MA). Realta Fusion Inc.
Lockheed Martin revealed yesterday that its Skunk Works team is working on a new compact fusion reactor (CFR)—the size of a Class 8 trailer rather than a building—that could be developed and deployed in as little as 10 years. —Tom McGuire, compact fusion lead for the Skunk Works’ Revolutionary Technology Programs.
Fusion Fuel and Electus Energy have entered into an exclusive joint venture agreement to develop a large-scale green hydrogen project in Bakersfield, California. Fusion Fuel has engaged Black & Veatch to perform a concept study and is also working with Cornerstone Engineering and Headwaters Solutions.
The US Department of Energy announced $29 million in funding for 14 projects as part of the Galvanizing Advances in Market-aligned fusion for an Overabundance of Watts (GAMOW) program, which is jointly sponsored by ARPA-E and the Office of Science–Fusion Energy Sciences (SC-FES). Earlier post.). University of California, San Diego.
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.
Fusion Fuel has entered the centralized electrolyzer market with the introduction of its HEVO-Chain solution. Render of Fusion Fuel’s HEVO-Chain hydrogen unit. We are extremely excited to introduce the HEVO-Chain, an innovation which represents the culmination of more than two years of hard work by our R&D and Engineering teams.
EcoBoost engine. liter EcoBoost engine into its lineup. The new engine will be first introduced in China in the all-new Ford Mondeo, making its public debut later this month at Auto Shanghai 2013 ( earlier post ), with applications following in the Fusion sedan in North America this year, and later the new Mondeo in Europe.
2013 Ford Fusion. Ford unveiled the new 2013 Ford Fusion midsize sedan, with conventional gasoline engine; hybrid featuring a next-generation of Ford’s hybrid system; and plug-in hybrid versions at the Detroit Auto Show—the first production sedan to offer that trio of options. The next-generation Fusion 1.6-liter
billion in its Hermosillo (Mexico) Stamping and Assembly Plant for the production of Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ lineups. In addition to Fusion, which has been built in Hermosillo since 2005 and sold more than 1.1 Ford is investing $1.3-billion million models, Ford started building Fiestas at its Cuautitlán plant in 2008.
The new Ford Fusion will be the first non-hybrid Ford vehicle available in the US with Auto Start-Stop. As a result, Ford engineers have more than 25 patents pending for innovations developed in the electronic control strategy for the $295 system. Earlier post.)
Ford is offering the Auto Start-Stop system on its new non-hybrid 2013 Fusion equipped with a 1.6-liter liter EcoBoost engine ( earlier post ) for $295. starter motor to provide seamless engine starts once a driver. module to assures vehicle accessories function normally when the engine is off.
The US Department of Energy announced the winners of $32 million in funding for 15 projects as part of the ARPA-E Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy ( BETHE ) program. Commercial fusion technology has long been viewed as an ideal energy source. Earlier post.) —Under Secretary of Energy Mark W.
Consumer Reports’ own fuel economy tests of vehicles equipped with small turbocharged engines has found in many cases that the turbocharged cars tested by CR have slower acceleration and no better fuel economy than the models with larger conventional engines, the organization said. The smaller engine—a 1.6-liter
After achieving temperatures greater than 75 million degrees Celsius and demonstrating unmatched real-time control of plasma with its fifth-generation fusion research reactor, Norman, TAE Technologies has secured strategic and institutional investments to fund the construction of its next research reactor, the sixth-generation Copernicus.
For decades, nuclear fusion the reaction that powers the sunhas been the ultimate energy dream. Fusion requires temperatures hotter than the suns core and a mastery of plasmathe superheated gas in which atoms that have been stripped of their electrons collide, their nuclei fusing. But the challenge is huge.
The PPPL team invented this nuclear-fusion reactor, completed last year, using mainly off-the-shelf components. Jayme Thornton PPPL researchers say their simpler machine demonstrates a way to build stellarators far more cheaply and quickly, allowing researchers to easily test new concepts for future fusion power plants.
Eni and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a spin-out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) signed a Collaboration Framework Agreement with the aim of accelerating the industrialization of fusion energy. Eni says CFS has the fastest pathway to commercial deployment of fusion energy.
The two projects are part of a larger multi-year DOE-funded project to develop and to apply innovative simulation strategies and tools to maximize benefits of predictive information from high performance computing (HPC) for internal combustion engines. The Principal Investigator on that DOE project is Dean Edwards of ORNL. Click to enlarge.
With the new BASF polymer, however, Ford is able to skip that painting step, thereby reducing cost and environmental impacts during production of the 2013 Ford Fusion. If clear-coat paint had been used on these particular parts with the new Fusion, it would have required Ford’s supplier to ship parts from Kalamazoo, Mich.,
Ford Motor Company announced a corrective action—a software update—to address potential engine overheating that could result in engine fires in SE and SEL models of the 2013 Ford Escape and Ford Fusion models equipped with 1.6-liter liter engines. liter engines. liter and hybrid engines.
Of crucial importance in this respect is the networking of all systems, or “sensor fusion”. DISTRONIC PLUS with Steering Assist, BAS PLUS and PRE-SAFE Brake all employ sensor fusion using the same stereo camera and multistage radar sensors. Take, for instance, the new BAS PLUS assistance system with Cross-Traffic Assist.
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.
And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. Consequently, governments, universities, and companies have long looked to fusion to remedy these ills. We and other scientists and engineers at. At nearly 1.4
The dream of fusion power inched closer to reality in December 2022, when researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) revealed that a fusion reaction had produced more energy than what was required to kick-start it. It showed there’s nothing fundamentally limiting us from being able to harness fusion in the laboratory.”
Interest in fusion energy is surging today in response to the world’s desperate need for abundant clean power. However, the standard deuterium-tritium (D-T) reaction at the core of conventional fusion reactors conceals big, long-term problems. They also produce little or no radioactive waste.
Ireland-based electrolyzer company Fusion Fuel Green PLC will collaborate with Consolidated Contractors Group S.A.L. CCC and Fusion Fuel have agreed to cooperate on projects involving the production of green hydrogen for potential clients in the refining and petrochemical industries in order to reduce their carbon footprint.
Ford has upgraded the software in its new 2017 Fusion Hybrid and Energi (plug-in hybrid) models to deliver a “more refined and engaging drive for customers,” the company announced at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). In 2015, Ford sold 24,681 Fusion Hybrid models in the US, and 9,750 Fusion Energi models, drops of 30.3%
Advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor that might be realized in as little as a decade: the ARC (affordable, robust, compact) reactor. The proposed tokamak (donut-shaped) reactor is designed to have 500 MW fusion power at 3.3
In a paper being presented at WCX SAE World Congress Experience in Detroit this week, a team from MIT is proposing the use of a flex-fuel gasoline-alcohol engine approach for a series-hybrid powertrain for long-haul Class 8 trucks. Ethanol or methanol would be employed to increase knock resistance. —Daniel Cohn. —Daniel Cohn.
The engine-gearbox unit produced using the additive laser fusion process passed all the quality and stress tests without any problems. Engineers in the Advanced Development department were able to carry out several development steps at once with the prototype. Every layer is melted and then fused with the previous layer.
MiGTDI engine. At the US Department of Energy (DOE) Annual Merit Review in Washington, DC last week, Cory Weaver from Ford Research and Advanced Engineering reported that Ford has completed the planned build of 12 units of the new engine, and is working on vehicle integration for further testing per the project timeline.
One of the greatest climate -related engineering challenges right now is the design and construction of a large, zero-emission, passenger airliner. Airbus hopes to achieve such a large efficiency gain by exploiting emerging advances in jet engines, wings, lightweight, high-strength composite materials, and sustainable aviation fuel.
For the first time, the pistons for the high-performance engine of the 911 flagship model, the GT2 RS, are now also being produced with a 3D printer. Thanks to the new, lighter pistons, we can increase the engine speed, lower the temperature load on the pistons and optimise combustion.
This family enables centralized, single-chip processing for multi-sensor perception—including high-resolution vision, radar, ultrasonic and lidar—as well as deep fusion for multiple sensor modalities and AV path planning. Additional features of the new CV3 central domain controller family include:<>/p>.
HF35 will be used in five electrified vehicles being introduced this year: C-MAX Hybrid; C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid; Fusion Hybrid; Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid; and the Lincoln MKZ Hybrid. Investments at Van Dyke include manufacturing, capital equipment, launch and engineering costs, and supplier tooling upgrades.
The hybrid system in the coming 2013 MY Fusion and C-Max hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) ( earlier post ) marks the third major generation of Ford’s powersplit system. With the Generation 3 HEV system, Ford decided to downsize the engine from a 2.5L Engine drive - positive split. Engine drive - negative split.
Invented by Soviet scientists in the 1960s , gyrotons are used in nuclear fusion research experiments to heat and control plasma. Microwaves meet rocks “But an energy beam doesn’t have those kinds of limits,” says Paul Woskov , senior research engineer at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
Ford Motor Company reported that it has built its two-millionth EcoBoost engine since the launch of the line in 2009. With customer demand exceeding its initial projections, Ford now expects EcoBoost production to exceed its global diesel engine production. Ford’s global EcoBoost engine family now includes the 1.0-liter
If it had ever left the spotlight, nuclear fusion is certainly now back. There have recently been new books , big announcements from small fusion companies , and the widely-shared news of a new record for energy produced at the National Ignition Facility , at the U.S. As the joke goes, fusion is always 40 years away.
As part of its LiDAR sensor development, Ford has tested Fusion Hybrid autonomous research vehicles in complete darkness without headlights on desert roads, demonstrating the capability to perform beyond the limits of human drivers. —Wayne Williams, a Ford research scientist and engineer.
The Li-ion KLT test allows engineers to simulate many factors affecting the Li-ion batteries, including location of a battery within a vehicle; the temperatures they might have to endure; and various kinds of acceleration and stopping that different drivers would apply. —Mazen Hammoud, chief engineer, Electrified Powertrain Systems.
Ford introduced two new taxis: the new 2019 Transit Connect Taxi and Ford’s most fuel-efficient, purpose-built taxi, the 2019 Fusion Hybrid Taxi. liter EcoBlue diesel engine, is targeted to return an EPA-estimated Highway rating of at least 30 mpg. The 2019 Transit Connect Taxi and 2019 Fusion Hybrid Taxi can be ordered now.
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