I wanted to post something I found interesting, and discovered that we don’t seem to have a thread for posting science articles in general (as opposed to on specific topics).
So, here it is (unless I’ve missed something, in which case please clue me in!).
For those who hadn’t seen this
Obligatory:
I like it, but I’ve got to admit the label on the toggle for the switching the display between metric and imperial measurements (i.e., “English / Metric”) made me twitch a little. It’s science; please stop measuring things like a bumpkin.
At least they have since updated the webbsite to allow you to choose between Time and Distance on the scale. Previously it was a unitless scale that defaulted to elapsed time which was really confusing.
A milestone was reached this week by the Joint European Torus (JET): the 100,000th pulse of the fusion energy experiment.
JET, which is located at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in the English county of Oxfordshire, has a history going back to 1975. The Culham site was chosen in 1977 and the doughnut-shaped tokamak achieved its first plasma in 1983 (the Queen did the official switching on duties the following year.)
[…]
US scientists have succeeded in demonstrating self-heating plasma in a crucial step towards self-sustaining fusion energy.
Researchers at National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have published a peer-reviewed paper describing how they achieved burning plasma — where the heat from fusing nuclei take over as the main source of fuel heating — across four experiments which each produced more than 100 kilojoules of energy.
[…]
This topic was automatically closed 30 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.
This whole video seems to be a play on words.
It’s not heavy, it’s big boned.
