Gizmodo Science Fair: A Greener Way to Fuel Nuclear Fusion
Researchers at ETH Zurich, Texas A&M University, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Canadian Light Source Inc., and the Paul Scherrer Institute are winners of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for safely and sustainably extracting lithium-6—a key fuel for nuclear fusion. The question Can electrochemical processes help clean water polluted from fracking? And could the same setup be used to extract lithium-6 from oil field wastewater? The result A project led by ETH Zurich suggests we can. The system,