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This website is the result of years of enjoying life but also seeing a world that seemed to be roaring toward oblivion. I wondered how I could help change that course, even in small ways. Now that I have become a former worker in applied sciences, I am pursuing the opportunity to do what I can. Instead of researching and developing new products, I am focusing on researching and reporting on the radical new sources of energy and how they will change almost everything. We usually are not aware of how energy is influencing us. But if you sit back and consider it, it shapes almost all our life activities. These include our choice of residence, transportation, employment, . . . . 

Fossil fuels have passed their peak. They have done wonderful duty in moving the planet forward with vastly improved transportation, health, housing, education, communication – essentially, everything. Petroleum and natural gas have made possible a wide variety of plastics, fuels, containers, and vehicles, to name a few. Natural gas continues to be a vital fuel for power plants. But they have also brought us climate change – dangerously increasing temperatures, violent storms, flooding, droughts. 

Alternatives such as solar voltaic and wind have come to the rescue. Both have made remarkable progress. Wind is providing 8.1% of global electric power and solar is at 6.9%. That is a full 15% of all electricity on the planet, or 530 gigawatts. Yet corporations such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are either building or contracting with fossil-fueled power suppliers to expand their server farms for AI because their systems require more faster than these can provide. At the same time, the global shift toward electrification is accelerating demand across major sectors: heat pumps for home heating and cooling; induction ranges; and electric vehicles, including aircraft. As a result, demand is rising faster than non-polluting energy alternatives grow. 

This is creating a vacuum that is being filled by new energy sources. This is the territory where I have naturally thrived throughout my life – on the edge of technology where science moves into practicality. Where electric power is involved, fusion is on that edge. It is a practical application of plasma physics – where atoms of two non-fossil fuels are joined by  compression to the point where their nuclei merge into one (fusion). The result is an atom that weighs less than the two original ones and the difference is turned into energy and neutrons. This is the same reaction that keeps our Sun going. It was also reproduced in 2022 in a U.S. national laboratory.

I am closely following this and have been since the 1970’s when it was called a Controlled Thermonuclear Reaction (CTR). It is the most exciting of the new energy sources that I am reporting on www.marksenninger.com. Others include new long-life, fast-charge batteries, electric vehicles, solar energy panels and wind powered generators. 

These are creating entire new businesses and employment opportunities in addition to clear paths for older industrial areas to return to full life – something they may not have seen since the middle 1900’s. 

We are talking about world change. For example, many designs use fuel that is universally available, not some proprietary stuff like oil, gas, or uranium that can be hoarded by individual nations and sold to the rest of the world. Think about fusion fuels like hydrogen, that is available from sea water. How could it affect the cost of generating electricity compared to natural gas or uranium? How might this influence the balance of world power? 

Also, if moderate-sized fusion plants were distributed across the planet to augment both the giant fossil-fueled and nuclear plants we have today, could they take the pressure off of maintaining and building addition cross-country power lines – an enormous and expensive undertaking? Could fusion help defuse some local, and possibly global, tensions and swing us toward focus on wellbeing?

Is this fantasy – a dream world that will never come true? I suggest that it is no more a fantasy than oil was when it overtook coal, and made new modes of transportation and many other things possible. We now have gas and diesel powered vehicles as well as aircraft and ships. Transitioning to electric power produced by solar panels, wind turbines is happening. Meanwhile, fusion is taking shape. Companies and coalitions are currently constructing reactors that are designed to supply power to the grid. A few are building plants that are dedicated to one or a few major consumers like a single AI server farm where it will remove reliance on the power grid that communities rely on for powering homes and businesses.

This could tame much of the climate change that is currently threatening the way of life of most of us on this planet.

Often unspoken, there is an implication that fusion, the advances in solar and wind, and the move away from fossil fuels, including natural gas, must happen with urgency. Data trends across a wide range of variables are showing us that massive trouble is brewing unless we act swiftly.

Another example of a new energy source is specialty batteries. Technology behind these has very rapidly advanced to where these are highly reliable, safe, and capable of massive capacity. They are currently smoothing electricity generation from solar and wind, allowing these two sources to make major advances where they could not previously due to their variability.

These are a few examples but they do not live in isolation. They require investment in R&D and far more in construction and operation. The people they serve must understand what they are and the benefits. Politics enters every facet. I will also address these non-technical areas. 

I look forward to writing and discussing all of this here online. 

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