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> What makes scientists believe that the solution to nuclear fusion power is only a matter of scale? I guess there are too many physicists who can lobby well a

> What makes scientists believe that the solution to nuclear fusion power is only a matter of scale? I guess there are too many physicists who can lobby well and their income depends on it. I don't expect any results after the many attempts (as opposed to fission, which had almost immediate results).

willis936 6y ago
In case anyone read this comment and wanted the real answer: empirically derived scaling laws from a series of machines increasing in size. The last/largest is JET. http://fusionwiki.ciemat.es/wiki/Scaling_law http://fusionwiki.ciemat.es/wiki/Scaling_law