Will the Kiwis accomplish what Europe and the US could not do after decades of intensive research! 😊
If we can harness nuclear fusion on earth then e.g. say goodby to all these thousands of ridiculous windmills and solar panels!
Overall, I think the article is not written very well. It is hard to figure out what kind of device this company is using and how it works or is it secret.
"... OpenStar technologies reached a crucial milestone in the development of nuclear fusion-first plasma. This is the moment a fusion device creates and confines a super-hot cloud of ionised gas. ...
“In a magnetosphere or planet, you have something to touch. These particles eventually find their way to the poles of a planet. That’s what we call the Aurora Australis and Borealis. And in our experiment, that’s also true. Those highest energy particles make their way to the support structure of our system, and that ultimately suppresses the temperatures that we can produce. ...
The New Zealand team’s design based on planet magnetospheres is different.
In contrast, a levitated dipole system doesn’t have a lot of stored energy called “plasma current”, Mataira says. “So you don’t get these big bursts of energy whacking into things.” ...
OpenStar is one of a growing number of companies worldwide using high-temperature superconductors (HTS) to build their magnets. These HTS magnets are made of rare-earth barium copper oxides, or ReBCOs. ..."
Engineers inside the dipole chamber
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