A unique MIT laboratory is back in business. The Plasma Science and Fusion Center was shut down for more than a year due to federal budget cuts. But scientists are once again at work, creating and controlling the energy of the stars, and possibly the power source for our planet’s future.
The Power Source Of The Future?
Even though Dr. Earl Marmar’s lab is just across the street from his office at MIT, the senior scientist puts on his coat. The day is bright and sunny but deceptively cold. It’s 20-something degrees outside, a stark contrast to inside his lab, where things really heat up.
“We’ve gotten to 100 million in our experiment — that’s centigrade or Kelvin,” Marmar explains. That’s about 200 million degrees Fahrenheit, about 10 times the temperature in the center of the sun. Marmar’s experiments are ambitious and audacious. read more>>>
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