GottaLaff ,
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Scientists and engineers near the English city of Oxford have set a nuclear fusion energy record, they announced Thursday, bringing the clean, futuristic power source another step closer to reality.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/08/climate/nuclear-fusion-energy-milestone-climate?cid=ios_app

unikitty ,
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NICE!

Sounds like fusion energy generation could be as little as 20 years* away now!

(*This is a joke because people have been saying things like this for decades. A sustained 5 second reaction is still pretty good tho.)

lednabwm ,
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@GottaLaff

That's 13.8 Megawatts per second with only 200 micrgrams of fuel... Holy Mr. Fusion, Batman....

flyhigh ,
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@GottaLaff Nuclear fusion energy seems a lot like flying cars. We hear about it year after year, but nothing really happens.

CarlG ,
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@GottaLaff We are getting tantalizing closer to making cold fusion a reality with every reaction they can sustain for a period of several seconds or more.

I only hope hey can deliver on the fusion promise in my lifetime - it seems they have been about 20-30 years away from it for the past 50 years.

zenkat ,
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@GottaLaff "While fusion energy would be a gamechanger for the climate crisis — which is caused primarily by humans burning fossil fuels — it’s a technology that’s still likely to need many years to commericialize. By the time it’s fully developed, it would be too late to use it as a main tool to address climate change, according to Aneeqa Khan, research fellow in nuclear fusion at the University of Manchester.". 😕

patmadigan ,
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@GottaLaff I love that they’re figuring out how to controlled fusion reactions.

I would love it more if they performed those fusion experiments on the moon. Oh, and please put the supercollider up there as well, that things creeps me the hell out.

serenebabe ,
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@GottaLaff how can something that involves nuclear fusion ever be "clean?" (sincerely asking. perhaps I should read the article. I'll go do that.)

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