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South Korea’s artificial Sun ran for 102 seconds and it could change the future of energy (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

On a minor plus side, if you dope the walls with mercury, it transmutes to gold, in commercially viable amounts!

There's literally a startup promising to exploit this. Although, how they're going to get a commercially visible fusion reactor started remains to be seen