Anonymous ID: 3ee558 Feb. 25, 2022, 6:16 a.m. No.15719068   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9093 >>9133 >>9341

Google just trained an AI to control a fusion reaction in a tokamak. Fusion beats fission, solar, fossil fuels, & wind.

 

They are scared shitless of fusion because it destroys the coercive power of the energy market. Entire nations survive only because they have fuel to sell. No fuel sales and their people starve.

 

Google AI Boosts Plasma Control for Fusion Energy

By Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio 02.22.2022

 

Google has applied AI in an effort to manage plasma within a nuclear fusion reactor. DeepMind Technologies, Google’s British AI subsidiary, used its machine learning expertise to manage a tokamak, a circular nuclear fusion reactor, in partnership with EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center ( École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). The findings, published in the journal Nature, may provide new avenues for developing fusion as a sustainable energy source.

 

Among the primary challenges for achieving nuclear fusion is containing plasma in a tokamak reactor while preventing it from colliding with its boundaries. To avoid this, researchers at the Swiss Plasma Center used computer simulators to test alternative control systems.

 

Controlling plasma in a tokamak reactor requires constant magnetic field monitoring. Maintaining the stability of hot plasma formed by ions and electrons is difficult. DeepMind’s approach addresses this challenge through magnetic confinement via a new algorithm. The DeepMind team trained its algorithm first in a computer simulation, then during an experimental phase. The AI model was used to monitor plasma by taking 90 different measurements 10,000 times per second. It then adjusted the voltage accordingly for the reactor’s 19 magnets.

 

Since 2014, Google has also been working with U.S. fusion researher TAE Technologies to apply its machine learning approach to a different type of fusion reactor.

 

https://www.eetimes.com/google-ai-boosts-plasma-control-for-fusion-energy/