Group Touts Milestone for Hydrogen-Boron Fusion Power (electric, advance, electricity)
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A California-based group said it has completed the first-ever hydrogen-boron fusion experiments to produce a sustainable fuel for utility-scale fusion power.
TAE Technologies on Feb. 28, in a peer-reviewed paper published by the scientific journal Nature Communications, said its research supports the path to providing electricity from nuclear reactors fueled with hydrogen-boron, also known as p-B11 or p11B. TAE said its program, done in collaboration with Japan’s National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), focused on the first-ever hydrogen-boron fusion experiments in a magnetically confined fusion plasma. The group said it has “pioneered the pursuit of the cleanest and most economical path to providing electricity with hydrogen-boron fuel.”
The paper published Tuesday explains the outcome of the nuclear fusion reaction of hydrogen-boron during an experiment in NIFS’s Large Helical Device, or LHD.
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Researchers at Japan’s NIFS said hydrogen-boron is considered an advanced fusion fuel because it “enable(s) the concept of cleaner fusion reactors. This achievement is a big first step towards the realization of a fusion reactor using advanced fusion fuel.”
The scientists wrote in the research paper: “While the challenges of producing the fusion core are greater for p-11B than D-T, the engineering of the reactor will be far simpler. … Stated simply, the p-11B path to fusion trades downstream engineering challenges for present day physics challenges. And the physics challenges can be overcome.”
" The group said it has “pioneered the pursuit of the cleanest and most economical path to providing electricity with hydrogen-boron fuel.”
Laughable. A statement authored no doubt by a direct descendent of PT Barnum, or at least Ron Popiel.
A more appropriate and accurate statement would have been "We have successfully taken one small baby step that may (or may not) eventually lead to a practical and economically feasable fuel for the generation of electricity."
Even a journey of 1000 miles starts with a single step.
" The group said it has “pioneered the pursuit of the cleanest and most economical path to providing electricity with hydrogen-boron fuel.”
Laughable. A statement authored no doubt by a direct descendent of PT Barnum, or at least Ron Popiel.
besides the fact they have not pioneered it, there are other groups working on hydrogen-boron fuel for fusion since the early 2000's, like Lawrenceville Plasma Physics
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