[ClearCase_guy]

With this latest advance, I’d estimate that we are only 25 years away from fusion power.

[ComputerGuy]

Relying on 1.15 gigajoules of power

That's slightly more than I can come up with.

[ModelBreaker]

“the difference between taming a tiger in the wild versus a small kitten within your home.”

I’m not sure which way this analogy cuts.

Has anyone ever successfully trained a cat to do anything it doesn’t want to do?

[FrankRizzo890]

Why will we never have commercially viable fusion power? Because you can’t make nuclear weapons from the byproducts. So regimes like Iran can’t say that they want “nuclear power” for their people when they REALLY want to become a “nuclear power”.

[William of Barsoom]

I hope commercial fusion power is developed in time to charge my electric flying car from my convenient 13,000 Amp home charger...

[StormEye]

"“This innovative capability is now ready to be exported
to many machines in the U.S. and around the
world,” Delgado-Aparicio said ..."

Why? Why export this "innovative technique" to the
the rest of the world? Let the the rest of the world
spend their money and use their resources and time
to figure it out. America must stop being Uncle Sucker
to the rest of the world. The rest of the world is looting
the USA with the help of our caring political
establishment.

[Honorary Serb]

New!

[xoxox]

wild, baby.

[Chode]

tungsten melts at 6,192°F, how does it does it shed the heat?

[caddie]

1.15 gigajoules divided by 360 seconds is...

3,194,444 watts.

That's a little over 3 megawatts!!

That's not even a tenth of a gigawatt!

Wait I gotta find my slide rule to check that result.

[PeterPrinciple]

a device internally clad in tungsten,

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https://www.bulbs.com/learning/incandescent.aspx

An incandescent bulb typically consists of a glass enclosure containing a tungsten filament. An electric current passes through the filament, heating it to a temperature that produces light.

[PerConPat]

...to sustain hot fusion plasma nearing temperatures of 50 million degrees Celsius for a record-breaking six minutes.

Velly Intelestingk...I don't know, but I've been told fusion in captivity requires around 100 million Celsius get started.

[Paal Gulli]

It's not if, it's when.

[1756-L85E]

“could”, “might”, “possibly”........yawn

[BenLurkin]

I don’t claim to understand this, but the idea of stripping off a neutron to make energy reminds me a bit of the Pons and Fleisher Cold Fusion.

Alternative to fusion, one-neutron stripping beats powerful nuclear reaction
An underdog nuclear reaction can produce as good output as the popular nuclear fusion.
https://interestingengineering.com/science/neutron-stripping-output-nuclear-fusion
Updated: Jun 22, 2024 08:17 AM EST