"Fusion Energy" The World's Largest Fusion Reactor Is About To Be Turned on..
The world is searching for a clean, limitless, renewable and by-product free source of energy, where it can have pure and raw energy power without having to deal with the by-prodyct later, as in the case of our energy sources today in the likes of the uranium splitting fissions that accompany today's nuclear plants.
This hunt or research for limitless and renewable energy has driven scientists to creating this amazing fusion reactor called "The Stellarator". Though it sounds like a comic book energy source, it is the real deal, the worlds largest neuclear fusion reactor which is scheduled to turn on later this month.
Looking more like a psychotic ambiguous art project (Lol), the stellarator is housed at the Max Planck Institute In Germany. The Wendelstein 7-X ( W7-X) stelarator appears to be the future of energy. This reactor looks strange and different especially when you compare it to other reactor's symmetrical, donut shaped cousin ( The Fokamak). The fact is that both the stellartors and the fokamaks work according to closely similar principles: The same system of coiled superconductors used to create powerful magnetic cage. System which serves as a house to contain a gas as it is heated to very high and ungodly temparatures where the hydrogen atoms can fuses.
Stellarators are convinsingly hard to build, you could tell just by one glance at this W 7-X. It has a 16 meter-wide ring in which there are dozens of devices and cables of all shapes and sizes, including a 250 access ports. Its 56-ton magnetic coils are all twisted up and contorted like clocks found in a Dali. But putting complexity aside, stellarators have immense qualities that makes them best suitable and capable to handle commercial usage and application. Stellarators can be turned on for much more longer time than any other reactor without any magnetic disruptions.
It has taken 19 whole years to create and build this Wendelstein 7-X, which will be turned on by the end of the month, dependant on the approval of Germany's Nuclear Regulators.
If all goes according to plan and this device is able to contain all the heat, this incredible device could steer a new direction for fusion power.
We hope for the best as the W 7-X will be turned on later this month, the world is really in need of a new direction to an energy source generator..
Image Sources: [1,] (https://gizmodo.com/worlds-most-insane-fusion-reactor-is-about-to-switch-on-1741199892) [2,] (http://www.google.com.ng/search?q=the+stellarator+nuclear+reactor&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjortbcosvYAhWGE5oKHceqCPsQ_AUIBigB#spf=1515547839003) [3] (http://www.google.com.ng/search?q=the+stellarator+nuclear+reactor&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjortbcosvYAhWGE5oKHceqCPsQ_AUIBigB#spf=1515547839003)
References: [1,] (https://gizmodo.com/worlds-most-insane-fusion-reactor-is-about-to-switch-on-1741199892) [2] (https://www.euro-fusion.org/fusion/earths-energy-needs/)