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Zap Energy has achieved a breakthrough in fusion technology with its Z pinch device, FuZE, which reaches electron temperatures of 11 to 37 million degrees Celsius, surpassing core sun temperatures, at a fraction of the cost and complexity of other systems. A bright flash of light from a FuZE plasma. Credit: Zap Energy
“These are meticulous, unequivocal measurements, yet made on a device of incredibly modest scale by traditional fusion standards,” describes Ben Levitt, VP of R&D at Zap. “We’ve still got a lot of work ahead of us, but our performance to date has advanced to a point that we can now stand shoulder to shoulder with some of the world’s pre-eminent fusion devices, but with great efficiency, and at a fraction of the complexity and cost.”by the U.S.
FuZE is the simplest, smallest and lowest cost device to have achieved fusion electron temperatures exceeding 30 million degrees, offering the potential for a more practical and cost-effective fusion energy system than other approaches. Credit: Zap Energy, where large electric currents are channeled through a thin filament of plasma. The conducting plasma generates its own electromagnetic fields, which both heats and compresses it.
“The results in this paper and further tests we’ve done since, all paint a good overall picture of a fusion plasma with room to scale toward energy gain,” says Uri Shumlak, co-founder and Chief Scientist at Zap Energy. “Working at higher currents we’re still seeing sheared flow extending the Z-pinch lifetimes long enough to produce very high temperatures and the associated neutron yields we’d predict from modeling.
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