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Realta Fusion makes electricity, but not through heat conversion
Realta Fusion announced it has achieved direct energy conversion at the Wisconsin HTS Axisymmetric Mirror (WHAM), powering a lightbulb using electricity extracted from charged particles emitted by the plasma.
This process, called direct energy conversion (DEC), was theorized by Richard Post, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and has been demonstrated experimentally a few times, the earliest being the “Venetian blind” converter in the 1970s.
Kibeom Son (Kyung Hee Univ.), Gyunyoung Heo (Kyung Hee Univ.), Ji Suk Kim (Chung-Ang Univ.), Man Cheol Kim (Chung-Ang Univ.), Gayoung Park (Chosun Univ.), Jonghyun Kim (Chosun Univ.), Meejeong Hwang (KAERI), Moosung Jae (Hanyang Univ.)
Proceedings | 2021 International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2021) | Virtual Meeting | Pages 944-952
