Fusion power has the potential to provide sufficient energy to satisfy mounting demand, and to do so sustainably, with a relatively small impact on the environment.
Within the tokamak, we see field coils, the vacuum vessel, blanket modules, divertor cassettes, and equipment for heating and diagnostics. Visible is one of the high-energy neutral beam injectors that heat and drive the plasma. The fusion fuel consists of deuterium and tritium, which are isotopes of ordinary hydrogen (shown in red and green in the visualization). To produce fusion reactions, the fuel must be heated to a temperature of about one hundred million degrees – about ten times the temperature of the core of the sun. At such temperatures, the electrons of atoms are stripped from the nuclei forming as a state of matter called plasma. One method of achieving these high temperatures is by injecting beams of high-energy neutral atoms into the tokamak. An initial plasma is formed and heated by driving an electric current through the fuel gas in the tokamak chamber. When the plasma reaches a sufficient density and temperature, the injectors are turned on. Because injected atoms are electrically neutral, they are unaffected by the magnetic field and can penetrate deep into the plasma before being ionized by collisions with plasma particles. These very energetic beam ions are trapped by the magnetic field and circulate throughout the plasma, colliding with the plasma particles and transferring energy to them. As the temperature of the plasma rises, due to the beam heating, fusion reactions between the plasma deuterium and tritium begin to occur.
While disabled, the submarine tender USS Proteus discharges radioactive coolant water into Apra Harbor, Guam. A Geiger counter at two of the harbor’s public beaches shows 100 millirems/hour, 50 times the allowable dose.
Cost: 198.8 Million European Units of Account (predecessor to the Euro). JET was completed in 1983.[9] This is roughly 438 Million in 2014 US dollars.[10]
Scientists at Oxfordshire are preparing for the fusion testing set to begin in 2015. They hope to break their own record of 16 megawatts of fusion power.[12]
Tore Supra is a French tokamak that began operating after the discontinuation of TFR
It now holds the record of the longest plasma duration time for a tokamak (6 minutes 30 seconds and over 1000 MJ of energy injected and extracted in 2003)
ITER began in 1985 as a Reagan–Gorbachev[19][20] initiative[20][21] with the equal participation of the Soviet Union, European Union (through EURATOM), the United States, and Japan through the 1988–1998 initial design phases.
The sky is crying, and the flags are at half-mast. It is a sad, sad day. But it is also your day, Noah, my little man. I will miss your forceful and purposeful little steps stomping through our house. I will miss your perpetual smile, the twinkle in your dark blue eyes, framed by eyelashes that would be the envy of any lady in this room.
Most of all, I will miss your visions of your future. You wanted to be a doctor, a soldier, a taco factory manager. It was your favorite food, and no doubt you wanted to ensure that the world kept producing tacos.
You were a little boy whose life force had all the gravitational pull of a celestial body. You were light and love, mischief and pranks. You adored your family with every fiber of your 6-year-old being. We are all of us elevated in our humanity by having known you. A little maverick, who didn’t always want to do his schoolwork or clean up his toys, when practicing his ninja moves or Super Mario on the Wii seemed far more important.
Noah, you will not pass through this way again. I can only believe that you were planted on Earth to bloom in heaven. Take flight, my boy. Soar. You now have the wings you always wanted. Go to that peaceful valley that we will all one day come to know. I will join you someday. Not today. I still have lots of mommy love to give to Danielle, Michael, Sophia and Arielle.
Until then, your melody will linger in our hearts forever. Momma loves you, little man.
Not sure if that’s a eulogy for a little kid, or for another dimension.
But I digress.
Other mentions for taco:
Lego Movie – Taco Tuesday Feb 7, 2014 and what a coincidence that on Feb 7, 2014 the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory published this :
Title: Toroidal Rotation in ECH H-Modes in DIII-D (A24310)
Let’s see what happened on that day elsewhere:
May 21, 2003
[MASS/GRAVITY] An earthquake in northern Algeria measures 6.7 on the Richter scale; at least 1,600 are feared dead and 7,000 injured. (The largest earthquake to hit Algeria occurred in May, 2003. Nearly two thousand people were killed in Algiers and Boumerdes province, in the centre of the country.)
[HEAT/THERMAL] An explosion occurs inside the Yale University’s Sterling Law School Building in New Haven, Connecticut(Pretty close to Sandy Hook, Connecticut), damaging two rooms. Investigators from the Joint Terrorism Task Horse respond. No injuries reported. Authorities strongly believe the explosion was caused by a pipe bomb.
[TIME/SATURN] In Britain, the convicted child-killer Mary Bell, now living under a new name and assumed identity, wins her High Court battle for anonymity. (Mary Flora Bell (born 26 May 1957) is a British woman who, as a child, strangled to death two little boys in Scotswood, an inner-city suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne. She was convicted in December 1968 of the manslaughter of the two boys, Martin Brown (aged four) and Brian Howe (aged three). Bell was 11 when she was convicted for killing Brown and Howe.[1])
[VIBRATION/FREQUENCY] In a close vote, Ruben Studdard beat out Clay Aiken to become the next American Idol. The second season of American Idol premiered on January 21, 2003, and continued until May 21, 2003
was a pogrom (a series of coordinated deadly attacks) against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and non-Jewish civilians. German authorities looked on without intervening.[1] The name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues had their windows smashed.[2]
Historical events for November 1938:
8th – 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Phila
8th – A pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris.
9th – Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil’ Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day
9th – Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany’s first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins.
10th – 8.3 earthquake shakes East of Shumagin Islands, Alaska
10th – Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
So I hope you can see, that whatever it is we are doing with these fusion reactors, it requires participation from things around it, whether you like it or not.
Will keep searching but i definitely see a pattern.
I have a hard time believing this line:
Mastering thermonuclear energy would provide mankind with an inexhaustible, safe and ecologically acceptable energy source.
” …without a unifying harmonic standard humanity is incapable of any long term resolution of any of its problems.” –Jose Arguelles
We as a civilization are living in an artificial hologram caused by a time-space distortion. Humanity lives in the past, running our lives by a mechanical clock and irregular, outdated time count implemented 433 years ago by Pope Gregory 13.
This time distortion matrix confines us to believing that 3D physical realty is the only (or predominant) reality. This perception closes our species off to the infinite possibilities and keeps us from accessing other dimensions of being where the solutions to our problems lie.