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Nuclear fusion.

• imtringued 9y ago
  If we had that then the governments would build supermassive flying submarine aircraft carriers with massive railguns and lasers and armor that is almost impervious to anything perhaps even nuclear weapons.
• freeflight 9y ago
  The US is participating in the ITER project [0], that's pretty much as good as it get's right now unless a country starts their own, very expensive, project. [0] https://science.energy.gov/~/media/fes/pdf/DOE_US_Participation_in_the_ITER_Project_May_2016_Final.pdf https://science.energy.gov/~/media/fes/pdf/DOE_US_Participat...
  • majewsky 9y ago
    There can be benefits to running multiple projects in parallel. For example, there are at least two competing reactor designs (tokamak and stellarator) where we (IIRC) still don't know which one is more promising. ITER is a tokamak, whereas Germany (which also participates in ITER) has a research stellarator in Greifswald, the Wendelstein 7-X.