Small fusion project with potentially big results

<![CDATA[Reading with interest about the Sandia National Labs’ Z machine, an electromagnetic fusion reaction generator, if it every works. More than a decade behind schedule, the project is the least heavily funded of the various fusion projects in the U.S. and Europe. Someone will make fusion work, and it will be a tremendous step forward toward sustainability. Check out how the Z uses a ring of supermagnets and tuned laser burst to compress and, hopefully ignite, a fusion reaction. It’s simplistic in its design, essentially a containment field. Let’s hope we keep funding this kind of small project instead of defaulting to one big bang approach to fusion. It will yield more results we can learn from.]]>