Mittwoch, 07. Juni 2023, 15:00 - 16:15 iCal
"Fusion: past and future of an energy source"
talk by Uriel Frisch (CNRS, OCA Nice)
"Pauli Colloquium" jointly with "Kolloquium der Fak. Mathematik"
Skylounge, OMP1
Oskar Morgensternplatz 1, 1090 Wien
Antrittsvorlesung, Public Lecture
Uriel Frisch, an eminent physicist + mathematician, CNRS research director, gives a scientific-historical overview of the state-of-the-art of producing energy by nuclear fusion.
“Fusion: past and future of an energy source"
Abstract:
In December 2018, Patrick Diamond, Uriel Frisch and Yves Pomeau published in "European Physical Journal (History)" a history of plasma physics in the 20th century of more than 300 pages. The articles were written by key players in plasma physics. Since the bulk of the plasma studies were born after 1950, most of the players are still alive and contributed eagerly. Nevertheless, the aformentioned editors had the feeling that the "prehistory of plasma physics" in the first half of the 20th century was certainly worth commenting on. In Section 3 "The birth of nuclear fusion", [1] they concluded "Sustained energy production by plasma fusion seems significantly more complex but, given enough international brain-power, time and money (in that order), it will be achieved, hopefully."
This week at the Wolfgang Pauli Institute we are running a workshop where we try to assess how much a recent breakthrough in laser fusion at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California [2] bring us to sustained energy production.
Curiously, fusion did not at all start in the early fifties. In the 19th century William Prout and Charles Darwin made key observations. In the early 20th century, Paul Langevin and Jean Perrin observed that Einstein's equivalence between mass and energy has important consequences for fusion energy.
This was before Arthur Edington well-known observations on the Solar energy "If indeed, the sub-atomic energy in the stars is being freely used to maintain their great furnaces, it seems to bring a little nearer to fulfilment our dream of controlling this latent power of the well-being of the human race - of for its suicide."
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Wolfgang Pauli Inst + Inst CNRS Pauli + Fak. Mathematik
Kontakt
Univ.Prof. Norbert J. Mauser
WPI c/o Fak. Mathematik
50663
norbert.mauser@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Freitag, 26. Mai 2023, 07:36
Letzte Änderung am Mittwoch, 07. Juni 2023, 14:20