A winery-dotted valley to the east of San Francisco holds one of the best prospects for a sustainable energy future. Here at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is where you’ll find the National Ignition Facility (NIF). The same physics ...
The majority of today’s energy-generating technologies are unsustainable because they harm our planet’s natural ecosystem. As a result, experts throughout the globe have been working on alternative power solutions that make use of plentiful and natural resources in recent years. ...
On Wednesday, U.S. government scientists announced a crucial step forward in the long journey toward making nuclear fusion — the mechanism that generates power to stars – a viable energy source for humanity. Using the world’s most giant laser, the ...
There are some serious disadvantages to nuclear fusion. We can mention radioactive wastes, high-energy-density, cost-competitive energy, and more. But nuclear fusion can also be important, and scientists are still looking for ways to make it. They may have a great ...