Jack Hare

This was a lot of fun (and very challenging) to write!

It's a two stage system from Samsung - the first stage is outside and heats up a closed loop, which the second stage in the basement takes and heats up further to get the water up to temperature.

We replaced gas boiler with a high temperature hydronic heat pump so we could keep our radiators. It's -15 C outside, and it's still pumping out 55 C water. What remarkable technology!

Big if true.

I spent (US) Thanksgiving in Toronto, on a mini sabbatical at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics talking turbulence and reconnection with folks there. There are some intriguing links between laboratory plasma turbulence measurements and pulsar scintillation that need to be explored!

I spent (US) Thanksgiving in Toronto, on a mini sabbatical at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics talking turbulence and reconnection with folks there. There are some intriguing links between laboratory plasma turbulence measurements and pulsar scintillation that need to be explored!

What a great APS DPP! Here's my team with our group poster. #plasma

I'm packing for APS DPP in Long Beach Ca tomorrow, which includes the most vital item for any US conference: half decent tea bags!

A grad student is 3D printing a scale model of PUFFIN, but it comes out with these terrifying eldritch trees as support structures. Very disturbing.

Wait, your lab doesn't have a popcorn maker? That sounds unbearable.

Wait, your lab doesn't have a popcorn maker? That sounds unbearable.

For the last few years I've made an overview poster for the APS Division of Plasma Physics, featuring the work done in my group over the last 12 months. It's a great opportunity to look back and see what we've achieved, and a good source of material for future talks!

Somewhere up above there's a stunning aurora! Shame about the thick clouds...

A very cool experiment in extreme laboratory plasma astrophysics!

What wonderful lighting!

It was great to be back at MIT PSFC! Yesterday I packed most of my old lab, ready to move to Cornell and sat on the cmte for Zhou Lou's defense, and today I gave the PSFC seminar and caught up all my colleagues. Here I am with students old and current, and some new PUFFIN stickers!

Out of interest, why fly it? That's a quite the plane!

Another great fusion milestone - I had just arrived at MIT when the TFMC was tested in 2021, and now CFS has ramped up a production line to build the full-scale toroidal field magnets needed for SPARC. Very impressive engineering!

Some really interesting results from Zap! I'm a long term Z-pinch enthusiast, and these results represent a solid technical development. Now we need the physics proof that shear flow stabilisation can really enable Q>1!

The only burning plasma we've ever created in the lab does not last a microsecond - why the focus on stability?

I'm on the sorting committee for the APS DPP conference this year, and boy is there a lot of behind the scenes work to get talks and posters sorted into sessions. Feel free to curse me when you're sprinting back and forth across a giant conference venue to make to every talk this Fall!

Kinda interesting, but get back to me when they evolve Q-switching.

The neon calibration lamp makes our experiment look very threatening.

I shall bear that in mind. Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!

Here's the thing: If I added invisible text to my manuscript offering a prayer to Glykon, the serpent god of hoax deities, it would obviously have no effect on the review because Glykon does not screen manuscripts.

Publishers using AI is a publisher problem.

Praise Glykon.

I've seen some people say it is unethical to sneak a prompt into a manuscript sent for review. It's unclear to me how this is unethical - only those reviewers using LLMs for peer review (a deeply unethical thing to do) would fall foul to it!

Researchers have been sneaking secret messages into their papers in an effort to trick AI tools into giving them a positive peer-review report

Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Back in the lab for two weeks of experiments on COBRA with this (for now) beautiful hardware! More experiments on guide field reconnection this time with Thomson scattering measurements.

Our lab techs complain that we pay them peanuts. This is outright slander: we pay them in U.S. fancy peanuts.

Record-Breaking Results Bring Fusion Power Closer to Reality Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream of controlled nuclear fusion may be within reach

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Breakthrough results from two rival experimental reactors—the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator and the Joint European Torus tokamak—offer hope that the elusive dream of fusion power is within reach.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/reco...