4 ms·
I remember distinctly reading a popular science magazine article when I was young (it had that great plasma picture with all the plasma arcs fizzing over the fl
by BurnGpuBurn 8y ago
I remember distinctly reading a popular science magazine article when I was young (it had that great plasma picture with all the plasma arcs fizzing over the floor of a giant lab) that stated that we could have fusion power plants in 25 to 50 years. That was 30 years ago.
- mdpopescu 8y agoIt seems I was indeed wrong about the deadline but not about the "forever" part, see [1] and [2]. [1] https://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/2014/11/forever-20-years-away-will-we-ever-have-working-nuclear-fusion-reactor https://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/2014/11/forever-20-yea... [2] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2016/03/23/nuclear-fusion-reactor-research/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2016/03/23/nuclear-fu...