Coulomb Barrier

The Sustainability Revolution – part 15: Technology – part 3, Energy extended 2

In the last post I discussed the problems of getting past the ‘Coulomb’ Barrier to achieve fusion in which the heat released can be used to generate electricity (steam turbines).  Considering the extreme energetic effort needed to reproduce the internal thermonuclear conditions at the core of a star (extreme heat Read more…

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The Sustainability Revolution – part 14: Technology – part 2, Energy extended 1

I had an email from a reader that in my last post about energy generation I had omitted Fusion energy, which they believed was a major energy solution technology.  So, this week’s post is a more-geeky insight in to the problems of energy generation in the post fossil fuel era. Read more…

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