Tracking the Tokamak: The Holy Grail of Renewable Energy

Abstract

A national laboratory dedicated to

research of fusion as a safe and

renewable energy alternative has

built a tokamak as a research tool.

A tokamak is a fusion machine that

uses magnets to harness superhot

plasma (the 4th state of matter) and

fuse atoms together, in doing so,

creating energy. Fusion, the process that powers the sun and stars, is the holy

grail of renewable energy, and scientists are trying to replicate the process on

Earth. If humans can harness the power of the stars, Earth could have virtually

unlimited energy for millions of years without contributing greenhouse gases, with

little risk, and available to all. This tokamak is a research instrument.