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We've been saying it's 50 years away for about 50 years... https://www.engineering.com/story/why-is-fusion-power-is-always-50-years-away https://www.engineerin

• charlieyu1 3y ago
  15 years ago AI was pretty much a dead end.
  • TimTheTinker 3y ago
    At our stage of world development, mathematical and algorithmic breakthroughs happen at a much faster pace than physical/mechanical breakthroughs.
  • afterburner 3y ago
    It's still not that impressive, more a result of computational power than anything fundamental.
• lucb1e 3y ago
  Fusion milestones have been newly achieved in the past 10 years. You may be right that it'll remain "50 years away" for generations still, but it's not evident to me that this will be the case. We barely had fission energy stable 60 years ago, we now know a lot more about the requirements and limitations for fusion, and we're allegedly still saying 50 years? That's a lot more reliable, and note that n=2 here (a bit more than one set of fifty years having gone by, a second fifty being underway and it still seeming like that). If it were "always 10 years away" since the 50s, that'd be quite a different story.