Science: Plasma energy

Plasma is a liquid that when given electricity can shine bright, the lights in schools and office buildings are plasma lights.

Plasma can also be used for entertainment perpouses with plasma balls. Plasma balls work because the gas has a metal electrode filled with gas kept under an intermediate pressure. First an electric voltage is aplied to the electrode which acts as a conductor used to make contact with a nonmetalic part of a circut.

Plasma has been used also in ways of creating a way to fix roads. Scientists made a machine to turn trash into the black stuff on the highway to fix it. Also students at UCLA are using plasma for themonuclear fusion which "fuses" two light nuclei to form a new heavier Nuclious. Thier 192 laser beams will work with an energy of 1.8 Megajoules and 500 Terawat more than 500 times the U.S. peak generating power on to a millimeter sized DT fuel Capsel in the center of thier 10 meter diameter test chamber.