Long hailed as an impossibility, harnessing nuclear fusion to power homes, businesses, cars and even airplanes is now widely viewed by scientists and engineers as a very real prospect that would ...
Scientists in California shooting nearly 200 lasers at a cylinder holding a fuel capsule the size of a peppercorn have taken another step in the quest for fusion energy, which, if mastered, could ...
Scientists have achieved a historic breakthrough in the field of nuclear fusion, the process that powers the sun and the ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I am a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. Last month the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National ...