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Fusion news

 Have you heard? 

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/02/09/uk/nuclear-fusion-climate-energy-scn-intl/index.html

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Anonymous said…
19 years after Hahn and Strassmann split the atom in the lab, we get the first commercial reactor in the US in 1957.

We did a fusion reaction in 1952 via Teller and Ulam. 70 years later we have 5 seconds of a controlled reaction.

I wonder where we will be in another 70. Possibly a little late for the predicted end of the earth by various parties.
Anonymous said…
Not even close to breakeven. But a major news event, due to ignorant media.
Anonymous said…
I had a jelly donut this morning. Only a mega-Joule, but the shape does work, just as the news release claims.
Anonymous said…
Keep in mind that dietary "calories" are actually thermal kilocalories.
Anonymous said…
Keep in mind that dietary "calories" are actually thermal kilocalories.

2/14/2022 5:37 PM

Yep! 250 "big calories" in a cheap jelly donut is about a MJ.

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