Tag: Fusion

PSFC showcases technologies applicable to both fusion and geothermal energy during representative’s visit

The MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) showcased its high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet technology, essential for fusion energy and increasingly relevant to superhot geothermal applications, to Representative Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass) during his March 12 visit. High-field electromagnets are required to confine plasma in fusion reactors, and PSFC’s HTS technology enables dramatically higher magnetic fields, […]

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Championing fusion’s promising underdog

Like many people who end up going into physics, Sophia Henneberg had a hard time, when she was young, choosing between that discipline and mathematics. Both subjects came easily to her, and she — unlike many of her peers — thought they were fun. Henneberg grew up in a small town in central Germany, and […]

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