US scientists achieve ‘holy grail’ nuclear fusion reaction: report
www.independent.co.uk
Nuclear fusion could be key tool to stave off climate crisis

Researchers were able to produce 2.5 megajoules of energy, 120 per cent of the 2.1 megajoules used to power the experiment.

Now we must wait to see if this is an aberration and can be done at scale. I'm ready for the world to change :party-parrot-science:

Government workers got the goods, fuck you capitalism, great 'innovation' you have :fidel-salute:

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The only possible issues I could foresee

    This belies either a lack of imagination or a lack of chronic depression. Imagine a world where fusion powered laser battleships are used to defend oil rigs from greenpeace activists.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Its possible oil can be phased out but yeah its more likely we'll have oil while having fusion battleships and submarines because this tech is gonna be pretty large scaled, not small like able to fit in a car, for a long time

      • blight [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        so if not a small car, maybe we could make bigger cars, and maybe hook them up to an electrical grid. maybe even have special metal lanes for them to improve traffic :train-shining:

        • kristina [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          hmm yeah true :thinking-about-it:

          in fact we can do that now with nuclear energy