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Dark dunes surrounding Mars's northern polar cap

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Mars has enough wind to power bases near the poles all year round

An analysis of the wind energy available on Mars finds that one well-placed turbine could enable a group of six people to live near the poles all year round

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Nuclear power plant

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WALTER TOSTO COMPANY REPORT https://www.flickr.com/photos/fusionforenergy/52231537313/ Final assembly of Europe's sector 4 of the ITER Vacuum Vessel, Walter Tosto, Italy, May 2022.

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Unlimited energy from fusion became a more feasible prospect in 2022

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TOPSHOT - Ukrainian Emergency Ministry rescuers attend an exercise in the city of Zaporizhzhia on August 17, 2022, in case of a possible nuclear incident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant located near the city. - Ukraine remains deeply scarred by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, when a Soviet-era reactor exploded and streamed radiation into the atmosphere in the country's north. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine was occupied in the early days of the war and it has remained in Russian hands ever since. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

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Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine started a new kind of nuclear war

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National Ignition Facility

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Nuclear fusion researchers have achieved historic energy milestone

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NIF Livermore July 2008 https://lasers.llnl.gov/media/photo-gallery?id=nif-1209-18050

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Nuclear fusion: Has there been a breakthrough and what will it mean?

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Sections of a timber wind turbine tower under construction

Environment

Should we build wind turbines from wood?

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The Zephyr solar plane made by Airbus

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Why the US military could replace spy satellites with solar planes

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Banning solar plants on farmland in England would be a grave error

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Banning solar plants on farmland in England would be a grave error

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https://ccfe.ukaea.uk/resources/#gallery JET tokamak

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Despite decades of hype, there is now real hope of progress in fusion

It may have a history of over-optimistic predictions, but research into generating power using a fusion reactor is finally making notable advances

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Environment

Heating homes with hydrogen is bad for both your wallet and the planet

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Physics

Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100 million°C for 30 seconds

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Hydrogen produced from air could provide low-carbon fuel in deserts

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Floating artificial leaf converts energy from sunlight into fuel

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