Book 1 - Hola MaHigh-School - June 2022

Fusion is nearly here
This is all inspired from an article I found here and from Wiki here
The easy facts first: we know nuclear technology. That is where we collide atoms
(the heavy ones like Plutonium) and causing them to ‘split’. That creates a lot of
energy (heat) which we can turn into steam and power a turbine that will generate
electricity. This is fission technology.
The ‘holy grail’ is fusion technology:
we collide two lightweight
atoms (helium) and
that will create energy that
can be used like above.
Fusion is many times more
energy-rich that fission
technology so that is where it
would be fun to go. There are no radio-active waste products. It is the greenest
we can ever go.
However, to keep a fission reaction going is comparable simple. Fusion is something
else. It requires a high temperature (a million degrees) and pressure. It will
melt anything it touches. That means, the ‘core’ will have to be a plasma-blob
floating in vacuum and held together via magnets.
That has been the limiting factor ever since we started tinkering with fusion
technology. And that goes back to the 1930’s.