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ITER has made the strongest magnet in the world, "capable of lifting an aircraft carrier". Guess we're due for a Carmen Sandiego heist any day now.

wind turbine output and rotor size growing over 40 years as the tech changes

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Plot of pace of deployment of various energy sources, starting from the day they reach 100 Terawatt-hours per year capability. Hydro and fossil fuels take 40 years to reach 1000 TWHr per year. Nuclear and renewables took 10 years.

This is apples and oranges. Once they worked, they worked better and better. It took a long time to make them work / useful. You think fusion energy should be like a prototype solar panel from day dot. Im saying fusion is only now reaching its prototype readiness stage of your deployment model.

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I find it curious to characterise research investment as a deliberate deception. Especially when we know that if you want to expedite development it takes additional resource (especially financial.) Fusion is famously starved of cash relative to other energy. Gas/coal get those billions annually!

Well windmills took centuries to become what they are now. Semiconductors took decades to develop for solar. Fire and burning fuel took a long time to develop to fossil fuel heat exchange. Once there's a prototype things can iterate fast but research stage takes a long time.

So this is interesting. Because I dont think anyone ever claimed net gain. And research always takes time and improvement, in all tech. e.g. Solar used to cost 00s now costs 0. UKRI shouldnt fund scientific research we should just do insulation? (Assuming they're were the same pot of cash.)

Scammers claiming net energy on the grid? We very explicitly separate physics and engineering net gain in reported results. 'Power station' experiments cost more than pencils, less than oil production. I dont think the fusion share has been an outrageous amount of UKRI funds. Research takes time.

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UK forges new radiation-resistant steel in step forward for fusion energy startups Forging fusion-grade steel at scale marks another step towards the moonshot goal of building a commercially viable fusion reactor.

UK forges new radiation-resistant steel in step forward for #fusion energy startups - thenextweb.com/news/uk-forg... " If you want to contain a mini Sun on Earth you're going to need access to hardcore metal — and lots of it"

Two plots of fusion progress measured against time from around 1980 to 2000. Latest results not shown. One shows progress against the triple product figure of merit for fusion performance, the other shows power output in Watts. Both show clearly positive logarithmic progress.

Most recent results not included. Logarithmic scientific progress on a difficult question over time included.

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Excerpt from a short story: "“It’s got a fusion engine!” Brady exclaimed. The basic concept of a fusion engine was pretty far beyond modern human understanding – but Brady knew how it would work. Step one: you have a fusion reactor that used some method to compress a fusionable material (usually an isotope of hydrogen) so that it underwent the same process that made the sun burn for billions of years. The energy released was then harnessed to, effectively, boil water and shoot it out the back of your spaceship to make it go. The difficulty was A) Step One and B) all the other parts. "

This is the basic problem of all fusion science

Plan for Change to deliver jobs and growth in UK leading fusion industry Government announces £410 million investment to accelerate development of fusion energy and kickstart economic growth as part of its Plan for Change.

Follow up to the last skeet - UK gov DESNZ announces next tranche of state backing for nuclear fusion energy. £410 mn to extend the UK's lead in this technology.

www.gov.uk/government/n...

If you want a measure of how close nuclear fusion energy is now, here are the hardnosed engineering firms _competing_ to get a slice of the supply chain for constructing power plants.

Three Kinds of Research xkcd.com/2977

I really enjoyed being able to go through my feed and pick up articles to read or threads explaining new papers/ interesting ideas. I wonder if there were some way to push those.

A screenshot of me inviting people on Twitter to join us here.

I really enjoy the science and climate community here and I would love for it to grow. If you’re still on X, why not use it to invite people to come over here? I do, every week!

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Timeline:

1820s - Fourier suggests greenhouse analogy to explain Earth’s temperature

1850s - Foote & Tyndall show CO2, CH4 & H2O are key atmospheric ingredients for greenhouse effect

1890s - Arrhenius estimates amount of warming if CO2 is doubled

1930s - Callendar observes CO2 increase & warming

An EU 90% greenhouse gas emission reduction target means massive acceleration of electrification:

Share of electricity of final energy consumption increases from currently 25% to 62% in 2050.

Electricity demand is 3x higher in 2050 compared to today.

Source is @ec.europa.eu

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In Canada also?

I know a running club that's getting pizza because they wont run on a leap day again until 20XX if that helps?

Stills from a video of the 5-second record setting pulse at the JET tokamak. We see a growing pulse of pink hydrogen filling one side of the hollow donut that is this machine. Source: UK Atomic Energy Authority, courtesy of EUROfusion

🧪 As teased yesterday - there's a new world record of 69 megajoules of fusion energy, released in a single shot at the JET tokamak or Joint European Torus!

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Put your email in a place where we can find it. The email on your paper is defunct and from your postdoc. You don't have a current website since you moved unis.

This is science, not witness protection.

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Find the three 'every's of their slogan scans rather better than the disjointed thoughts of two one-words into a phrase under the circles! Plus then the arrows are inconsistently each referring to different things? Not gonna cut through I suspect.

Hopefully! The others blew up real fast and then tried to work out how to moderate retrospectively and it did not work.