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Not OP, but a couple of things: 1. For magnetic confinement -- Affordable, extremely high powered magnets called ReBCO magnets have hit the market in recent ye
by showerst 5y ago
Not OP, but a couple of things:
1. For magnetic confinement -- Affordable, extremely high powered magnets called ReBCO magnets have hit the market in recent years.
2. Increases in computing power have made doing the modeling for a new design into a task that can be done in a cloud cluster, instead of requiring a dedicated supercomputer
3. VC's have funded a number of companies to actually start building prototypes.
I'm not qualified to say if it's "for real" this time, but there's definitely new excitement in area.
- EthanHeilman 5y agoCFS's SPARC started construction this year (2021) and should come online and produce net energy by 2025. That is, some of the best plasma physics scientists in the world are predicting net energy in four years. If they pull this off we will see a gold rush towards commercial fusion. I expect to be using fusion power in my house by 2032. Find me in 2032 and tell me if I'm wrong.