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Next week is "New York Energy Week", and in conjunction with that, the American Security Project, a fusion-friendly think tank, will be sponsoring a lunch on "new developments in energy research". It will be at 12:30 PM on Tuesday, June 16, at FTI Strategic Communications' office at 88 Pine Street, 32nd Floor, New York City.

The speakers are as follows:

Dr. Dennis Whyte, the Director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, one of the world’s leading fusion experts, will detail how groundbreaking advances in superconducting magnets, 3D printing, fusion configurations, and super-computing mean that the day fusion provides powers to our economy could be closer than many had thought.

Mr. Edward Reilly, Global CEO of FTI Strategic Communications, will introduce, and Brigadier General Stephen Cheney, ASP’s CEO, will discuss why fusion is important for America: our national security, our economic competitiveness, and our scientific leadership.

Here is the link: http://www.americansecurityproject.org/ ... kthroughs/

You may request an invitation to the event from that page.

Spherical tokamaks seem to gain more support lately. MIT Professor Dennis Whyte is one of the advocates of a new modular design for a spherical tokamak called ARC (Affordable Replacable Compact), which uses High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) for increasing the magnetic field.
Here are two links to a short and a long talk by Whyte:

Presentation on the smaller and sooner approach to fusion power, 11 min 50 s.
http://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/presenta ... te-of-mit/

Smaller & Sooner: The ARC Pilot Design for Fusion Development, 1 h 46 min 34 s
http://www.pppl.gov/events/colloquium-s ... evelopment

It will be interesting to see how the upgraded spherical tokamaks NSTX-U and MAST will perform once they start producing new data.

Another link:

http://breakingenergy.com/2015/06/18/ne ... d-cheaper/

Watching this video I was struck by the physicist vs engineer approach.

http://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/presenta ... te-of-mit/

He is looking for efficiency. And engineer looks at economical. The professor says - don't waste any energy. The engineer says don't waste any $$.

This article by Andrew Holland contains Whytes slides from the event: https://www.americansecurityproject.org ... d-cheaper/.