Machine Learning Applied To Nuclear Fusion

Posted: 5/5/2019

Nuclear fusion is still one of humanities best bets to provide limitless, renewable, reliable, and fairly environmentally friendly energy supply for the next millennia.

Just read Artificial intelligence speeds efforts to develop clean, virtually limitless fusion energy

It appears that nuclear fusion is an almost ideal domain to apply machine learning, because there are petabytes of high quality data available from many U.S. and European nuclear fusion experiments.

One of the reasons, why humanity has not succeeded yet are frequent disruptions (“the sudden loss of confinement of plasma particles and energy”) when running experiments in the Tokamak designed reactors. For decades, these disruptions have stymied success. Applying, machine learning, we may finally be much better able to predict and prevent the occurrence of such disruptions. If there are not other, perhaps more serious obstacles to successful nuclear fusion power generation, then we ought to be optimistic ...

However, we may also finally realize that the Tokamak design was wrong from the beginning and other designs may work better.

3D Printers Finally Challenge Legacy Industries

Posted: 9/20/2014

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Just read “So, this exists: A working car has been 3D-printed out of carbon fiber plastic”. A small, self propelled vehicle manufacturer in Phoenix, AZ (Local Motors) introduced a 3D printed two seater car made from carbon fiber reinforced plastic.

The car was printed in 40 hours. It is considerably lighter than any conventional steel or aluminum vehicle.

Legacy Industries Watch Out!

We could be on the brink to customized car manufacturing in your backyard. Perhaps gone are the days when you needed huge and expensive assembly lines etc. to produce cars.

The cost of car manufacturing should come down significantly.

3D printing probably requires less labor and so on ...