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From what I understand, producing a fusion reaction isn't the hardest part, it's maintaining it, extracting energy from it and preventing all the stuff containi
by RedShift1 5y ago
From what I understand, producing a fusion reaction isn't the hardest part, it's maintaining it, extracting energy from it and preventing all the stuff containing the plasma from becoming radioactive. So I think by now generating a fusion reaction is not exactly breakthrough anymore? Sure the method is novel but I don't see how it helps with all the other stuff that's needed to make it useful.
- OJFord 5y agoClaims it's 1000x cheaper, so I suppose that's the breakthrough. Fusion has been achieved, you're right; next step is creating more energy than is consumed to do so; then commercialising it. This makes it cheaper/easier to commercialise, but no closer (maybe further away, nothing claimed in the article) to the second step of getting more out than in.