Researchers just reached fusion ignition for the first time #shorts

The Department of Energy just announced a big step in reaching fusion energy. Here's what it means.

[slimeking]

Wow it feels like it's finally 29 years away

[NoHandleToSpeakOf]

300 MJ was used by lasers to make 2 MJ that yielded 3 MJ. Watch full press conference.

[ypey]

wow thats amazing! we could have fusion in 50 years now

[dvklaveren]

This is like every announcement about possible life on Mars. Every announcement about some new achievement sounds so exactly the same that we will barely register it when it actually happens.

[HeliumFreak]

I don't agree with the sentiment of "if its even possible at all" We KNOW its possible, we look at it every day. We just have to figure out how.

[AnonymousFreakYT]

This is an important step on the way to clean fusion energy. Unfortunately, it's only the 3rd step on a 10-story tall staircase.

[shanenspitaler]

The power of the sun in the palm of my hand!

[adedejishalom]

Imagination is our most powerful attribute

[ytubeanon]

lemme guess, all the chemicals and stuff they use to make it cost more than the extra energy it outputs

[lucash]

I swear I heard that another lab achieved ignition a few months ago. Any else?

[ilkerYT]

Yes its barely enough, guys dont get ur hopes up before ITER starts to do the tests... even ITER is taking years and years to be built dont expect a small company or research group to somehow make an economic reactor.

[BobMotster]

Great news! Thanks for letting us know!

[gregoryorion]

OF COURSE it's possible. They just did it, now it's just a matter of time and effort to make the process efficient and then mass produce it.

[TheSimba]

don't expect it within our lifetimes, they have been saying fusion is the future for 50 years

[aspektx]

My understanding was that the initial powering of the lasers used for the ignition created a large enough debt energy to heavily offset the generated power.

Which is insane considering how much energy was generated.

[mrnobody.]

It's about time how long has it been 50-60 years!?

[TheSilent]

The last image looks like the MCP from Tron. Don't let the reactor become sentient!

[ilyab.]

Prematurely to celebrate, again? Feels like I have been hearing this fusion breakthroughs for decades

[zay]

“Tritium fuel…”
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[ttmallard]

As someone aware of planetary heat_transfer geophysics, Steam-age power emits 2-joules of wasteheat times 1.7-aggi for greenhousing/second per watt on_the_wire.

These reactors are something to strive for as a learning curve to some other goal than as a heat source to steam electricity, for me it's the machine design concepts as the decades roll by trying.
Ymmv ☕️