Best of BusinessDesk: Race for fusion energy hots up

Best of BusinessDesk: Race for fusion energy hots up
OpenStar's plasma test reaches millions of degrees Celsius. (Video still: OpenStar)
Greg Hurrell
This story by Greg Hurrell, published in November, was a popular read on BusinessDesk in 2024.Wellington recorded the hottest temperatures in New Zealand, if not the entire solar system, this month.Nuclear fusion energy start-up OpenStar Technology has generated plasma – super-hot ionised gas –  for the first time. For a few seconds it reached temperatures in the low millions of degrees Celsius. The test was carried out in the central vacuum chamber at OpenStar’s base in the Ngauranga Gorge. It is a major prereq...

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