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When I first read that tokamaks were a promising idea, Brezhnev was still alive.
by brudgers 4y ago
When I first read that tokamaks were a promising idea, Brezhnev was still alive.
- actually_a_dog 4y agoNuclear fusion has been 30 years away for like 50 years now.
- Linosaurus 4y agoI thought it was always 20 years away, but it seems both have been common.
- brudgers 4y agoWhen Dad told me the "fusion is always been twenty years away" joke, Brezhnev was still alive then, too.
- binbag 4y agoSo what? It's been a good idea for a hundred years. That doesn't mean it's simple to engineer in practice, but nor does it mean it's a poor idea that can't be achieved.
- brudgers 4y agoThat's holds for transmutation, too. And it has a thousand years of history.
- Trouble_007 4y agoTokamak : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak ITER : https://www.iter.org https://www.iter.org