It could help tackle climate change, speed up a trip to Mars, and relinquish Vladimir Putin’s vice-like energy grip on the West.
In short, nuclear fusion would change the world.
And that’s why scientists across the globe are rejoicing at news coming out of the US that the ‘holy grail’ of unlimited clean power is within touching distance.
For the first time ever, researchers are believed to have gained more energy out of a controlled nuclear fusion reaction than they put in.
Excitement: Scientists across the globe are rejoicing at news coming out of the US that the ‘holy grail’ of unlimited clean power is within touching distance. For the first time ever, experts are believed to have gained more energy out of a controlled nuclear fusion reaction than they put in. Pictured is how a reactor works, based on one developed by UK firm Tokamak Energy
Stark Industries become reality. That didnt take long.
Better than wind.
Nothing really new here. I believe the reactor in Hanford Washington is a fusion reactor, 50+ years old.
It’s been decommissioned for years. It was controlled uranium fission, not fusion.
It’s also the site of a massive contamination cleanup that’s supposed to to take at least 75 years. Let’s just say they had some maintenance problems.
The devil is in the details. A closer read on the article would tell you that they achieved this on the microscopic level and for just a very, very short period (millionths or trillionths of a second, I can’t remember ).
It’s progress, but every few years they come up with another hyped-up “breakthrough”.
It is still YEARS, if not decades away from being even a commercial possibility.
But keep at it.
No one now alive will see any benefit from this project.. The world is on a path of self-destruction. “Just trying to survive…”
This technology is still 20 years away. It has been 20 years away for the last 40 years.
10 years from now it will be 20 years away.
First one with a fission powered pickup truck wins!
Ford making one !!!
Playing God – will get you?
Nothing new !!! like the 2 kinds of nukes > Fission / Fusion Atom Bomb / Hydrogen Bomb (much worse )
Playing with FIRE !!!