Unique in the country, the Swiss Plasma Center aims to master an energy solution never seen on Earth: nuclear fusion.
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Emmanuel Borloz
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In nature, plasmas exist in the Northern Lights and lightning. To recreate them, gas must be heated to extreme temperatures.
Florian Cella
“Sun on Earth.” Affixedeat the entrance d’un imposing building of the EPFL, registration immediately announces the color: what takes place there is not current. Between these four walls, it is nothing less than the myth of Prometheus that we dream of realizing. Welcome to the Swiss Plasma Center. For almost thirty years, we have been pursuing a somewhat crazy project: trying to reproduce, on earth, the physical mechanisms that make the sun and the stars shine. How? ‘Or’ What? By trying to control nuclear fusion. An energy grail, it would provide sustainable and almost unlimited energy.
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