We just have to figure out how to utilize it.”ĭeveloping the new magnet is seen as the greatest technological hurdle to making that happen its successful operation now opens the door to demonstrating fusion in a lab on Earth, which has been pursued for decades with limited progress. “The amount of power that is available is really game-changing.” The fuel used to create fusion energy comes from water, and “the Earth is full of water - it’s a nearly unlimited resource. “Fusion in a lot of ways is the ultimate clean energy source,” says Maria Zuber, MIT’s vice president for research and E.
That advance paves the way, they say, for the long-sought creation of practical, inexpensive, carbon-free power plants that could make a major contribution to limiting the effects of global climate change. That successful demonstration helps resolve the greatest uncertainty in the quest to build the world’s first fusion power plant that can produce more power than it consumes, according to the project’s leaders at MIT and startup company Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). 5, for the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped up to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created on Earth. It was a moment three years in the making, based on intensive research and design work: On Sept.
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