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Nuclear fusion offers a non-polluting and less risky method to meet the world's energy demands. While the process has been ongoing on the Sun for billions of years, humanity is still trying to perfect how it can replicated on Earth.and lasers to create plasma where nuclei of smaller atoms can be fused to create energy. However, energy gain has not been achieved through these approaches so far. This means that the energy spent to create fusion energy is much higher than the energy generated.
The catalytic fusion process results in energy generation in various forms such as light, heat, electrons, and other charged particles. This is trapped through the expansion of a coolant through a heat engine and directly converting electromagnetic energy into electricity.The fusion energy gain factor is symbolized by the letter Q and is the ratio of the energy put into the energy generated. When Q=1, breakeven is reached but when Q exceeds this number, it is referred to as infinite.