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> nuclear fusion is rapidly emerging And has been rapidly emerging for 60 years...
by londons_explore 3y ago
> nuclear fusion is rapidly emerging
And has been rapidly emerging for 60 years...
- aqme28 3y agoSame with AI, and yet they both keep getting closer
- klipt 3y agoIs it economically competitive with solar though?
- exe34 3y agoAt night it is.
- pfdietz 3y agoNot with LFP cells falling to $54/kWh.
- jeffbee 3y agoSolar power is gravitational confinement fusion.
- aqme28 3y agoIs it? Definitely not. Could it be? Maybe. Who knows
- londons_explore 3y agoI kinda get the feeling there are a core of scientists who want to work on this stuff. They'll work on it even if there is no hope of commercial fusion power, simply for academic kudos. Government's will fund it simply because there isn't much other blue skies physics research to fund.
- ben_w 3y agoAlso like AI, we have natural examples as existence proofs it is possible, followed by narrow non-generalised artificial examples, yet actually getting it working properly is very hard.
- itishappy 3y ago60 years of high-energy physics breakthroughs! Not to mention material breakthroughs, laser breakthroughs, chemistry breakthroughs, control theory breakthroughs... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_nuclear_fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_nuclear_fusion
- pfdietz 3y agoToday's high energy physics is at an energy some eight orders of magnitude higher than the temperatures in fusion plasmas. That's a larger ratio than between fusion plasmas and room temperature.