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Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times (www.cnn.com)
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[–] 121 points 2 years ago (1 child)

They boiled 10 kettles of water with this energy.

Ultimately, if everything is optimized, its probably only limited by the number of kettles available.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Could we somehow capture the steam from all the kettles to turn a turbine? I see zero problems with this plan.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Coal or nuclear, it's all steam baby

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I know this is probably tongue in cheek, but I genuinely thought the same until recently. There's a company called Helion which is developing a really cool fusion process that doesn't use steam as an energy transfer mechanism. Obviously it has its own set of drawbacks and roadblocks, but still really cool tech in the making.

    Here's the video I saw going into detail on it if anyone's interested:

    https://youtu.be/_bDXXWQxK38?si=iBpHfDxhRgHHRtN2

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I hope this actually pans out, but I am suspicious that it won’t. Mostly just because of they way they have this air of tech bro hype around them; hopefully I just learned about it through poor sources because it would be freakin cool if it worked

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh yeah I've seen that one.

    Honestly I don't have high hopes, they believe their next model will solve the shortcomings they face with it's size, but that could reveal a whole other set of issues.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Same, expectations are definitely in check, but cool none the less! I feel like there are a lot of hiccups here that would need to be smoothed out before this would become anything remotely feasible.

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