Scientists Achieve Second Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough

Scientists in California have once again achieved a nuclear fusion reaction — a breakthrough for the future of clean energy 🙌

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[juskahusk]

If we ever achieve nuclear fusion the sky will disolve and huge floating neon letters will appear saying LEVEL 2.

[UltimateOmegaRed]

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

[LadiesMan-bocc]

Just imagine how Steve Jobs tried explaining what the iPhone would be like.

[jmeyer]

I can't wait to get my Mr. Fusion.

[mnd]

So we are still 20 yrs away from fusion

[Brotor_]

Fossil fuel companies are starting to get nervous

[betergriffin]

Transmuting hydrogen into other stuff as a byproduct is also super useful

[theMylo]

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

[C-Dub]

I tried explaining this to my wife last night. She wasn't nearly as excited about it as I was, but then again, I'm definitely the nerd of the relationship.

[awesomelf]

My cousin is a nuclear engineer and he was in the navy and has been on carriers and in subs. The issue he really sees with fusion is that even if you get it to fully work, it spits out a ton of neutrons and they aren't charged so they just destroy everything. So until that issue is solved I'm not convinced. But all advancements and improvements are amazing!

[grvs]

If we can scale it down enough we will have plasma guns.

[pepsitwsit]

They achieved 50% more power than the laser beams shot at the pellet. But the lasers themselves have a 5% efficiency so nope, no positive net energy.

[leoverran]

Just like 35 years ago, it’s only 35 years away, yeah

[sanstheskele-bro]

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

[lmrandlette]

Hmmm… I heard the spiel about cheap energy from nuclear power in the late 1960s. Still waiting.

[wingman]

This time we only used the power of 290, 000 homes at once instead of 400, 000!

[wynnsworld]

Is this the "power of the sun in the palm of my hand" thing?

[Republic]

You don't discuss how the National Ignition Facility exclusively uses this technology to examine matter behavior under conditions seen in nuclear explosions in order to support U.S. nuclear weapon design and maintenance. It is not practical to produce large amounts of energy via nuclear fusion in this particular way. It only assists the research and recreation of the thermonuclear reactions found in the second stage of existing nuclear weapons since full-scale nuclear testing ended over 30 year’s ago.

[Mars-lsjj]

Hopefully Oil giants don’t try to propagandize people into thinking oil is better. This can be the future if people can yield enough energy to make this worth while.

[CarsCatAliens]

How fusion works, and the conditions needed to make it work blows my mind... When reading the atmospheres and temps My first thought was "What materials can handle that insanity"?