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How do you think we're getting fusion?
by mixedCase 4y ago
How do you think we're getting fusion?
- 6510 4y agodunno, some more money? Or wait for openAI to solve it? > Scientists are researching several different approaches to achieving it, including inertial confinement, magnetic confinement, and beam-target fusion. Inertial confinement involves compressing and heating a small thermonuclear fuel pellet with powerful lasers until it undergoes fusion, while magnetic confinement uses a combination of powerful magnetic fields to contain and heat a plasma until it undergoes fusion. Beam-target fusion involves shooting high-energy particles at a target to produce fusion reactions. All of these approaches require great advances in technology, engineering, and materials science in order for them to be economically feasible. a lot more money?
- dgf49 4y agoMaybe solving that problem is a valid test for strong AI.