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LOCATION:2241 Chamberlin Hall
SUMMARY:SPARC and the high-field\, privately-funded path to fusion ene
 rgy\, Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar\, Martin Greenwald\,
  MIT
DESCRIPTION:While fusion has enormous potential as a source of safe\, 
 carbon-free power\, the current road map seems unlikely to deliver thi
 s new energy source in time to help with efforts to mitigate global wa
 rming. However\, the basis for a breakthrough is here. High-temperatur
 e superconductors have emerged from the laboratory into industrial mat
 urity – permitting the construction of smaller\, cheaper fusion devi
 ces. With the SPARC project\, MIT has embarked on a project to test th
 is premise by building a deuterium-tritium burning\, mid-sized tokamak
  – of a size similar to many machines already in operation.  Using w
 ell-known physics to project performance\, we expect SPARC to produce 
 50-100 MW of fusion power\, comfortably more than the 30 MW required t
 o sustain it. SPARC is funded by private industry\, building on the fo
 undations of decades of fruitful\, government funded research while ha
 rnessing the resources\, agility and risk tolerance of the start-up cu
 lture.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=5006
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