May 18—CHEYENNE — Few people are lucky enough to discover their lifelong passion at an early age, and South High School senior Caleb Brewer happens to be one of them. Brewer was gifted with a LEGO EV3 set, a robot-building kit, when he was 10 years old. As the son of an engineer and a […]
A fusion reactor in southern France achieved a significant milestone toward clean, limitless energy. The fusion reactor, WEST, created a super-hot plasma and sustained it for a record-breaking 6 minutes. The experiment is laying the groundwork for a larger fusion reactor called ITER. A fusion reactor in southern France, called WEST, just achieved an important milestone that […]
Scientists and engineers near the English city of Oxford have set a nuclear fusion energy record, they announced Thursday, bringing the clean, futuristic power source another step closer to reality. Using the Joint European Torus (JET) — a huge, donut-shaped machine known as a tokamak — the scientists sustained a record 69 megajoules of fusion energy […]