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What concept has been proven? Have they achieved fusion? Or the concept of generating electricity from heat, proven long ago?
by creeble 5y ago
What concept has been proven?
Have they achieved fusion? Or the concept of generating electricity from heat, proven long ago?
- apendleton 5y agoNeither: their proposed design doesn't generate electricity from heat, so what they're talking about here is proving out the alternative mechanism of electricity generation that they propose to use. That's a valuable to demonstrate because it's novel, and necessary to eventually being net-positive, so showing that's possible shows that their eventual plan could work.
- creeble 5y agoYes, I figured that out long after my original post. It's just that Sam's post didn't mention any (semi-)novel method for generating electricity from fusion, so the actual words - "they and their team have built a generator that produces electricity" - appear as either hype or non-information outside that context.