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Got 'em
Those crazy sons of bitches actually did it!
Can't drink it though, tastes like burning.
I mean, it’s what the whole article is about. If you mean successfully generating sustainable electricity from fusion then yeah, maybe. Maybe not. People said flight was impossible too, you never know.
We've harnessed the power of fusion in nuclear weapons for decades already.
We've literally put it in a small container.
Combined with actual progress and scientific methods “you never know” is how you fly helicopters on other planets too.
You're calling the US National Ignition Facility at LLNI snake oil salesmen?
Bro 😭
I'm all for skepticism but, like, how are you gonna hoodwink someone into nuclear fusion power? Can that even happen?
Reminds me of the Librarian in W40K, "An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded."
The technology exists. There's huge funding going into it recently. Europe's ITER project is working towards it also, but in a different way.
The only major issue faced right now is how to increase the efficiency.
It is being surmounted now. Slowly but surely, it's happening. And progress is accelerating also.
https://www.google.com/search?q=fusion+news
Citation?
No, just the rate of improvement in efficiency of fusion reactors.
the reactor exist, isn't comercially viable but it exist
November 1, 1952. Enewetak Atoll.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike
I mean … the article is literally what it’s about.
You’re being downvoted because you’re being a cynical contrarian.
Saying nothing will ever work ever and nothing is ever good is not being skeptical.
The article you’re commenting on is the citation, you’re being cynical and acting in bad faith.
People disagree with you, I’d wager if you used a little more tact you might have more reasonable discussion.
This reads kind of like Derrida, or JB Peterson, where it almost seems like the goal is to deliberately avoid communicating in a way that is clear. To paraphrase, "You all misinterpret what I say, not because I'm bad at communication but because you all are." If one person misunderstands or misinterprets, maybe that's on them. If everyone does, it's more likely that it's on you.
This article is about fusion, not fission.
And I believe we’ve reached the point where everyone can recognize that Philo is arguing in bad faith.
Sure sounds like never.
Ah right, you left open the possibility that maybe in a billion years it might work. You sure got us. Fuck off.
I'm sorry you are saying other people are emotional and having responses like that? You are entirely trying to instigate a fight so you can feel some level of superiority?
You are having exactly the conversation you are trying to have and it's not a legitimate one.
"And it is almost a certainty not to be ever in the lifetime of man."
Let's just sliiiiide those goalposts a few hundred more feet huh?
Why will a tokamak never work, exactly? We’ve been running fusion experiments in them for 60 years and have a pretty good idea that we can make one big enough to produce power. We’re just baby stepping through the work so we don’t build a $30 billion dollar power plant that’s missing a design element.
K-DEMO, JT-60, DEMO, CFETR, STEP, and the US DoE’s planned reactor suggest a high level of confidence that the science is already there. It’s just an engineering problem, much like the nuclear bomb in 1935.
That's because your comment is on a post that is literally one of the sources you'd get. More efficiency, overcoming total input, making it a generator, etc are all ancillary.