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It's a bit cheeky but I like to point out that the Sun is nuclear power. It's a maintenance-free fusion reactor so powerful that it can blind you from 150 mill
by carapace 5y ago
It's a bit cheeky but I like to point out that the Sun is nuclear power. It's a maintenance-free fusion reactor so powerful that it can blind you from 150 million km away.
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Anyway, Robert Bussard believed that he was on to something with his polywell fusion plant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhL5VO2NStU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhL5VO2NStU
He claimed that it would only take about $200M of engineering development to become viable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell