Nuclear fusion: 'This is going to electrify efforts to build a clean, carbon-free power source'

For more on what the US Department of Energy is billing as a major breakthrough, France 24 is joined by Arthur Turrell, Deputy Director for Research and Economics at the ONS.  

[cauwenberghsroeland]

If this should be serious, all money invested from now on in nuclear energy would be lost...

[dragonslr]

A great power source to have when we're all dead🤨

[Ukie]

It didn’t need to take so long. Fossil fuel industry stalled this for so long.

[cyberfunk]

It's not really net energy gain when the lasers took something like 300 megajoules from the grid to create a 3 megajoule output of energy.

[anglosaxonmike]

No such thing as carbon free anything.
Greenland ice at a 43 year high, Antartic ice at 30 year high, 163% increase in global snow. A half a degree C drop in the global temperature in two years. It's going to get chilly!.

[garycarmichael]

How long will it take to bring into being a viable source of energy? 50 years? It’ll probably cost trillions of $, £ or €. Could be beneficial for future generations, but when a third of the world are in poverty, it’s hard to see how developing nations will be able to adopt this technology.

[lancelotaxton]

Why are you the only people reporting this? Let it off the mountain top ego strokes

[natbirchall]

Imagine a life without fossil fuel producers👍👍👍

[bob.fagg-bois]

Are all of the compponants used to make these machines carbon free and using renewable power to create?

[marnig]

No It's not, like last time. Its only a step forward but no breakthru.

[fumblinFe]

How will we use this miracle power source?
Simple, heat water to steam, use that steam to drive a turbine, that turbine's spin creates electricity.
It's storing and moving that electricity around, which poses the bigger problem.