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...Historically, that science has been done by large publicly funded laboratories, such as the Joint European Torus in Oxford, but in recent years investment has also flooded into private companies promising...
...For the latter, a “fusion strategy” will now be de rigueur. But commercial fusion lies decades away....
...US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm in December described the achievement of ignition as “one of the most impressive science feats of the 21st century”....
...Scientists think the Moon may hold large deposits of helium-3, which is crucial for nuclear fusion. There may be money to be made in extracting this for use back on Earth....
...Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, CFS was spun out in 2011 from MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, which was established with the help of the US Department of Energy in 1976 in response to the oil...
...Thomas Darden, Industrial Heat’s chief executive, is open about the scepticism surrounding cold fusion and said that for a long time he viewed it as a “pathological science” — one where believers see what...
...last week as a serious blow to UK science....
...The writer is a science commentator...
...Although laser fusion is expensive “big science”, it is vying for public investment with an even more expensive approach: magnetic fusion....
...Science and industry ministers have charted a way forward for Europe’s space activities....
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