About the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
The PPPL is a Department of Energy Lab overseen by Princeton University. Its main purpose is study fusion and plasma science to make fusion energy an avialable energy source that will rid our dependence on foreign oil and reduce the amount of harmful emissions into the atmosphere. While fusion is a lofty goal, the lab has also made breakthroughs in plasma science that have led to inovations in many fields and applications, including: supercomputer networking, computer chip manufacturning, medical MRIs, plasma tv's, energy saving light bulbs, plasma astrophysics, dynamo theory, space plasma physics ("space weather"), and high energy density physics just to name a few. To see more about the lab and its contributions to fusion science, here is a video from the PPPL website: "Fueling the Future".
Posted at 06:53PM May 21, 2008 by jlbarton in General | Comments[1]