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16.03.10 12:11 Age: 177 days

PRESS RELEASE: Help solving the world's energy crisis with EDGeS@Home

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Almere, 2010-03-15

Producing energy in a sustainable, safe and  environmental friendly way is one of the main challenges of our time. Nuclear Fusion is one of the promising energy sources, but  the technology is difficult to master. 

It could provide endless energy - estimated to be sufficient  for  about 2 billion years, there is no CO2  produced and no nuclear waste. Fusion reactors are also inherently safe, because the reaction automatically stops when something goes wrong. Currently Europe, and other countries from all over the world are working together to develop and  build  nuclear fusion reactors.

To predict and optimise the behaviour of nuclear fusion reactions in these  machines, a lot of computer calculations are needed.  Everyone can now help with solving this problem by donating unused computing time to the  EDGeS@Home project.

Read the full release (PDF, 90 KB).