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
      21·
      10 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.

  • rustydomino@lemmy.worldEnglish
    232·
    10 months ago

    I can’t believe that “Secretary of State John Kerry” passed editorial review in 2023. In Nature. Makes you wonder why academic institutions are paying these journals exorbitant subscription fees for alleged editorial rigor.

  • PhlubbaDubbaEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    The use of “over and over again” gives me amusing Homer Simpson thoughts, “Oh yeah baby fuse me so hard! Just like that!”

  • n3m37h@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    10 months ago

    Let me know when it actually produces electricity then I’ll be happy till then we should have been working on MSR

    • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      This one is for weapons research, nothing like the ones that are doing power research, but some of the knowledge might transfer