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South Korea’s artificial Sun ran for 102 seconds and it could change the future of energy
(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2026
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Fusion reactors are in prototype experimental stage, of course they use more energy than the output for 102 seconds. Obviously, that's not the goal.
Write a letter to ITER and tell all those PhDs they are stupid.
Nobody at ITER is promising to commercialize this technology at scale any time soon.