World’s biggest nuclear fusion reactor comes online (www.independent.co.uk)

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The scientists used lasers to fuse two light atoms into a single one, releasing 3.15MJ (megajoules) of energy from 2.05MJ of input – roughly enough to boil a kettle.

Why do we even study this? Renewables are the only way. This is a waste of money which is a finite resource.

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[-] derGottesknecht@feddit.de 19 points 8 months ago

Is it though? 560Mil is like 5 F35 jets

[-] baggins@beehaw.org 3 points 8 months ago

We gave away for more than that on covid scams. That we will never recover. Collect the correct amount of tax from a few companies/individuals and we could build 10 of these.

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