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World's Most Powerful Electromagnet Unveiled
General Atomics [note: more well-known for their military drones the Predator and Reaper] is scheduled on Friday to unveil a 1,000-ton superconducting electromagnet to be used in a 35-nation fusion energy study. According to General Atomics, the Poway-built device that's powerful enough to lift an aircraft carrier out of the water will be showcased at a news conference in Poway.
The electromagnet will be used in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor experiments in France, in which scientists will try to create a burning plasma that demonstrates the feasibility of fusion energy. Clean fusion energy has been a holy grail for researchers looking for alternatives to standard nuclear energy and carbon-based fuels. Scientists say fusion energy does not create long-term waste products or meltdown risks.
As much negativity is swirling around these parts about the military industrial complex, there could be much potential benefit from the technological progress General Atomics and others [lockheedmartin.com] are making. What do you all think?
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