Researchers at the National Ignition Facility are consistently creating reactions that make more energy than they consume.

US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving ‘ignition’ over and over::undefined

    • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      For several decades it’s been 20 years away, and before that 50, so yeah. Progress.

      (No /s, I think the money is finally in place to make it happen, and that was always the bottleneck.)

      That said, NIF is for weapons research, not power, but some of the knowledge they gain is probably transferable.