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“The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.” – Nikola Tesla
Focus of epowerearth.com (EPE) is on utilization of Nuclear Power as energy source for Commercialization, SPACE, Nuclear Power & Possession, Biotechnology, Genetics, Nanotechnology, and Nuclear Medicine.
EPE points to new found energy applications: communication, transportation, and life sciences. Specifically, their use in National Security and Competitive & Emerging Markets.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported in 2018, 450 nuclear power reactors in operation in 30 countries.
Viewing satellite imagery of systems across the globe calls attention to my visits to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva at the Franco–Swiss border. CERN is made up of close to two dozen member states. CERN is located in Eastern France, about 800km north of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER).
ITER or the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor is reported to be an experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor situated at Cadarache Center.
ITERs origins can be traced back to the 1980s with structural erection in the 2000s and ongoing assimilation. Funding reportedly comes from the European Union, China, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States. Altogether, almost 3 dozen member countries are included.
In the US, originally named Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor, CBFR, Tri Alpha Energy or TAE Technologies location is “based in Foothill Ranch, California, with global headquarters in Lucerne, Switzerland.” Foothill Ranch is situated in close proximity to the University of California, Irvine. The distance of 17.7 km makes it ideal for scientists to commute to the campus. US public/private ventures are ideal for technology transfers.
The late UC Irvine professor Norman Rostoker, known as “the father of breakthrough clean nuclear fusion energy” co-founded Tri Alpha Energy along with Microsoft co-founder, the late Paul Allen. New investors include, “… the Rockefeller family’s Venrock firm, Goldman Sachs, Rusnano and New Enterprise Associates.”
State of Florida, Hendrik J. Monkhorst Professor Emeritus of Physics and Chemistry, Member of the Quantum Theory Project. Monkhorst’s research includes “Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor for Green Nuclear Power.”
State of Washington and Canada appear to also show interest in fusion energy “Helion Energy is working on its own approach to small-scale fusion power, with backing from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital and other firms. Just outside Vancouver, B.C., General Fusion is making progress, fueled in part by investments from Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos.”
TAEs 2018 CEO Michl Binderbauer appeared to be thinking ahead as he was “already thinking about the next machine, which will be nicknamed Copernicus. TAE’s current facilities in Foothill Ranch, Calif., won’t be big enough to accommodate Copernicus, so Binderbauer and his team will be looking for an expansion site.” Florida, Canada, or Mexico?
US proposed 2020 “reopen our consulate in Nuuk, Greenland this summer for the first time since 1953. It’s reopening will…strengthen our partnership with are Arctic allies” may serve a dual purpose.
Or, have expansion sites in Africa or South America reopened for the New Nuclear Power & Possession Hierarchy of Russia, USA, France, China-Iran, UK, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea?
Impetus for the fusion energy goes back decades. Says a Forbes former contributor, “Several national labs and companies are working toward the same goal. If anyone achieves it, the rewards will be billions in profits and scientific immortality.” Achieving such a feat includes Patents.
Espacenet reveals the details for “Controlled fusion in a field reversed configuration and direct energy conversion” listed as
Inventor(s): MONKHORST HENDRIK J [US]; ROSTOKER NORMAN [US] +
Applicant(s): MONKHORST HENDRIK J, ; ROSTOKER NORMAN, ; THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, ; UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Physicists, Electricians, Chemists, Engineers, and Scientists – their stand on viability of creating new power grids from energy generated from nuclear reactors are dependent on where they sit on progress and principles. Balancing both is no small feat.
Future generations stand to gain and lose in the next century of the electrically powered world. Or, will Oppenheimer’s fear be realized, “I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
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