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Cattle industry poised to lead the way to a cooler Earth
In discussing how to counter global warming, it’s pretty easy to argue that nuclear should be the major electricity source and heat producer to replace fossil fuels. At 6 grams per kilowatt-hour, it has the lowest carbon emissions of any energy source, according to the United Nations, and is objectively the safest form of energy for humans and the environment alike, again from a recent UN report.
K. Itoh, H. Sugama, T.-H. Watanabe, O. Yamagishi, S. Toda, N. Kasuya, R. Kanno, M. Nunami
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 58 | Number 1 | July-August 2010 | Pages 256-268
Chapter 6. 3-D Theory | Special Issue on Large Helical Device (LHD) | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-A10812
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In this paper, microturbulence, turbulent transport, and related structure formation mechanisms in helical plasmas are discussed, with special attention to application to Large Helical Device (LHD) plasmas. The research frontier for the physics of anomalous transport and confinement improvement is illuminated, and future direction of the confinement research is illustrated.
