So our class took a field trip to the MIT Plasma Fusion Center to learn more about the alternative energy source. When we first got there, we went into a conference room, where a man named Christian gave a presentation. A lot of the presentation, we had already learned in class, but it was a brief overview, basically.
We were in there for about 40 minutes or so and then a man named Kevin took us on a tour of the place. Kevin was telling us about how much money and time was put into C-Mod, their most prize experiment, it would seem. He told us that C-Mod was only one of 3 projects of its kind in the whole country. We went into their control room for the project and saw that it was filled with computers and screens overlooking the machine.
The next room he took us into was a temperature control room of some sort. We all had to put on hard hats, seeing as it was mandatory. All the objects and pipes and stuff in the room helped to keep the temperature controlled for C-Mod.
The final room he took us into held C-Mod itself. The only reason we could go in there on that day was because the machine wasn’t on that day and it was safe for us to go in. Usually, the sound is so loud, it can damage hearing.
We concluded the tour back in the control room. Kevin began telling us how the government actually wanted to cut back their funding, ending the program. MIT is actually the only center, out of all three in the whole country, that researches this science. To cut the program, over a hundred workers would be put out of a job. He gave us this website where, if we wanted to, we could sign a petition to help stop the cut back.
Well explained and good pictures!