Nuclear fusion would be a clean-energy game changer. How close is it to being a reality?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/fusion-startups-9.7045784?cmp=rss

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actionjbone@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 208d (2 replies)

It's only, what, 5 years away?

Just like 5 years ago.

randomwords@midwest.social · 10 pts · 208d (1 reply)

yakko@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 208d

Oh shit lmfao

artifex@piefed.social · 3 pts · 208d

Only 50 years away!

(Just like it was in the 1970s)

hanrahan@piefed.social · 2 pts · 208d

A good read on this is Sun in a Bottle

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3024263-sun-in-a-bottle

And a physicists take on the Livermore announcement that so many went bat shit over, one dude on Mastodon said he was so overwhelmed he was on tears as we can now "solve" climate change .. Wtf!!!

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/08/fusion-foolery/