The U.S. Power Grid(nomagicpill.site)

80 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | 25 comments

An interactive 3D model of a U.S.-style power grid explaining how electricity is generated, transmitted, priced and kept at 60 Hz, with scenarios like Winter Storm Uri.

Will we ever get fusion power?(construction-physics.com)

218 points by pseudocoup 2 years ago | 212 comments

Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria(fusionenergybase.com)

219 points by sam 1 year ago | 120 comments

Fusion reactor is held together with tape(spectrum.ieee.org)

69 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 45 comments

Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes(ipp.mpg.de)

477 points by greesil 3 years ago | 258 comments

Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics press release reporting that the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator sustained a plasma with gigajoule energy turnover for eight minutes.

Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record(heise.de)

184 points by doener 1 year ago | 48 comments