US lab stands on threshold of key nuclear fusion goal

BBC ^ | 08/17/2021 | Paul Rincon

[itsahoot]

Sure but I think they need two od fashion nuclear reactors go power the later. Just kidding.

[Dr. Sivana]

All he needs is that the ChiComs ‘wet his beak’.

What starts as this:

Ends up as this:

[mcshot]

“What, you mean you don’t want for earth to join the club of formerly inhabited planets ...

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I either jumped threads or got lost.

[TChad]

I either jumped threads or got lost.

The planets were once inhabited by aliens. Their civilizations survived until one of their scientists performed a high energy physics experiment that accidentally destroyed their world.

[bosco24]

I wonder if they get out 10 Kton of TNT energy, which is greater than the 1.9 MJ, would be deemed a success.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yea, I’m kinda opposed to that.

[cicero2k]

Real energy breakthrough: fracking, horizontal drilling. Likely breakthrough: cheap battery storage to enable wind and solar. Fusion, nuclear to be laboratory curiosities.

[Kevmo]

Yeah, they would loudly proclaim it to be a victory, even if it isn’t.

[Born to Conserve]

It is sarcasm. It is a hackneyed joke from fifty years ago, and from every year since then.

[Maine Mariner]

Yes, I knew that. I should have put the s/ mark down.

I remember the break throughs 45-50 years ago and the “experts saying 30 years ago, fusion energy would soon be availalbe for close to a zero price.

[Born to Conserve]

Sure ya did.

[ro_dreaming]

I kind of like the earth as it is... it’s where I keep all my stuff.