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Hundred million degree fluid key to fusion
http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/hundred-million-degree-fluid-key-to-fusion[font face=Serif][font size=5]Hundred million degree fluid key to fusion[/font]
7 March 2016
[font size=3]Scientists developing fusion energy experiments have solved a puzzle of why their million-degree heating beams sometimes fail, and instead destabilise the fusion experiments before energy is generated.
The solution used a new theory based on fluid flow and will help scientists in the quest to create gases with temperatures over a hundred million degrees and harness them to create clean, endless, carbon-free energy with nuclear fusion.
"There was a strange wave mode which bounced the heating beams out of the experiment," said Zhisong Qu, from ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering, lead author of the research paper published in Physical Review Letters.
"This new way of looking at burning plasma physics allowed us to understand this previously impenetrable problem," said Mr Qu, a theoretical physicist.
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7 March 2016
[font size=3]Scientists developing fusion energy experiments have solved a puzzle of why their million-degree heating beams sometimes fail, and instead destabilise the fusion experiments before energy is generated.
The solution used a new theory based on fluid flow and will help scientists in the quest to create gases with temperatures over a hundred million degrees and harness them to create clean, endless, carbon-free energy with nuclear fusion.
"There was a strange wave mode which bounced the heating beams out of the experiment," said Zhisong Qu, from ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering, lead author of the research paper published in Physical Review Letters.
"This new way of looking at burning plasma physics allowed us to understand this previously impenetrable problem," said Mr Qu, a theoretical physicist.
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