The United States special envoy for climate, John Kerry, launched this Tuesday (5) an international engagement plan to boost nuclear fusion. According to the American representative, the technology, which is free of emissions, can become a vital tool in the fight against climate change.
Kerry said the plan involves 35 countries and will focus on research and development, supply chain issues, regulation and security.
“There is potential in fusion to revolutionize our world,” said Kerry at COP28 in Dubai.
Fusion, the energy source that powers the Sun and other stars to generate electricity, can be replicated on Earth with heat and pressure using lasers or magnets to smash two light atoms into a denser one, releasing large amounts of energy.
The nascent technology could have an important advantage over current nuclear fission plants, producing enormous amounts of unlimited energy without long-lived radioactive waste.
But there are major obstacles to fusion producing commercial electricity. For one thing, to date, scientists have only come up with scattered cases where fusion experiments produce more energy than is needed to carry them out.
There are also regulatory, construction and location obstacles to creating new fleets of power plants to replace parts of existing systems.
On November 8, the UK and the US signed a merger cooperation agreement. Other countries seeking to merge are Australia, China, Germany and Japan.
Source: CNN Brasil

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