Fusion was always funded at a level where no measurable progress would be made for years and years but in the last decade or two funding has really increased. We're hitting new milestones all the time, and it looks like a lot of the problems of sustaining a fusion reaction were really problems of computational power and magnetohydrodynamic modeling not being there yet.
I mean, if they're breaking ground on this shit, I have to assume they're serious. I agree that the old Pop-Sci articles about being another ten years out from flying cars is exhausting. But this seems to be discussing actual hardware development and not just another round of theoretical publications.
I've seen so many articles that it's only "a few years away" that I've become skeptical, but I hope it's true.
Fusion was always funded at a level where no measurable progress would be made for years and years but in the last decade or two funding has really increased. We're hitting new milestones all the time, and it looks like a lot of the problems of sustaining a fusion reaction were really problems of computational power and magnetohydrodynamic modeling not being there yet.
I mean, if they're breaking ground on this shit, I have to assume they're serious. I agree that the old Pop-Sci articles about being another ten years out from flying cars is exhausting. But this seems to be discussing actual hardware development and not just another round of theoretical publications.