Nuclear Fusion World Record Smashed in Major Achievement::undefined

  • gregorum@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    i’m not trying to diminish the importance of this achievement, but for the next decade or two, pretty much every achievement in fusion will be record-breaking in one way or another. that’s sorta the point of making progress while developing this tech which is in its very early stages.

    still, very exciting!

      • StormNinjaPenguin@lemmy.ca
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        7 months ago

        Not like I’m an expert on the topic lol. But I happened to watch a Nebula video series on Helion’s approach from Real Engineering and I really hope they manage to crack the efficiency barrier. The idea of truck container sized reactor that makes it’s own fuel and produces energy directly from electromagnetic impulses (not from heat via turbines) is almost too good to be true.

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    7 months ago

    And it’s still 40 years away to becoming a reliable power source since they started experimenting with it in the 1950s.

    Joking aside I don’t think I’ll be able to see a working fusion power plant in my life time.

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Tbf most things “always 20 years away” is usually that way because of funding reasons.

      If fusion got the funding it deserved from the beginning things would be a lot different now. But, ya know, big oil and old rich fucks :/