Month: October 2015

spaceplasma:

The Alcator C-Mod Tokamak

For 40 years MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) has been
exploring nuclear fusion as a source of energy through a series of
tokamaks. The C-Mod is the third in a series of Alcator tokamaks
developed at MIT since the 1960s. Characterized by a donut-shaped
vacuum chamber wrapped in high-field magnets, the Alcator approach makes
it possible to produce very dense and well-confined plasmas in a
relatively compact device. (The name “Alcator” comes from alto campo
torus = high field torus.)  Its metal (molybdenum) walls can accommodate high power
densities. Alcator C-Mod has made significant contributions to the world
fusion program in the areas of plasma heating, stability, and
confinement of high field tokamaks.Alcator C-Mod is the only tokamak in the world operating at and above
the ITER design magnetic field and plasma densities, and it produces
the highest pressure tokamak plasma in the world, approaching pressures
expected in ITER.

Image source & credit: Dave Mosher/Tech Insider 

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ultrafacts:

Bristol-based Open Bionics says it is trying to boost the confidence of children who need to use prosthetic limbs and to get them excited with the bright designs. 

The company is using 3D printing to keep the cost affordable but, with the increased focus on the designs, they hope to make the prosthetics something the wearer can be proud of, as well as something that makes their lives easier.

The Walt Disney Company donated royalty-free licences and artwork from the three hit movies for the limbs.

According to the Open Bionics website, children will not only get the medical devices they need but will also get bionic hands inspired by their favourite characters.

“(Children) won’t have to do boring physical therapy – they’ll train to become heroes,” the website reads.

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That’s a damn fine idea, and it’s good to see Disney not being greedy about it as well.

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kawaiilluminatii:

YMCA but instead of young man they say comrade and YMCA is USSR

comrade, steel production is down/i said comrade, you must sleep on the ground

I said comrade, you best wipe off that frown or you’ll spend! A! Month! In the gulags!

There is no fun in the U-S-S-R! It’s no fun at the U-S-S-R!

We have everything, but no food for our men, we have rifles and just one hen!