350 MW nuclear fusion reactor design gets closer to powering thousands of US homes

Interesting Engineering ^ | May 28, 2025 | Staff

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Only 20 years away...

[Skwor]

Just a decade away. /sarc off

[rktman]

And the 30 million acre Gulf of America wind farm........?

[blackdog]

NTSA.

[Red Badger]

“Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“Everything is impossible until someone does it.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

[Red Badger]

The Infinity Two concept is uniquely based on the world’s only implementable, peer-reviewed physics basis for a fusion power plant, recently published in the Journal of Plasma Physics.

[NewHampshireDuo]

Just a decade away. /sarc off

As my electrodynamics prof told me back in 1971, commercial fusion is only 10 years away.

[MtnClimber]

Why don’t they just go to the Sun and scoop up some material that is already undergoing fusion to power a reactor? They could use something like a giant spoon. It might get too hot so they might need to do it at night.

[Red Badger]

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Not saying that it’ll absolutely never happen, just that the time never seems to arrive. That’s why I’m skeptical of these predictions. Some day one might come true, but I’ll believe it when it actually happens.

[Leaning Right]

> That’s why I’m skeptical of these predictions. <

And you are correct to do so. Some of these companies are on the right track. Others are just overly optimistic. And then there are the companies that are running stock pump-and-dump schemes.

Time will tell.

(No disrespect meant to the original poster. The more viewpoints we get, the better.)

[The Great RJ]

So far actual fusion has just been a fleeting laboratory experiment and no where near to a sustained source of power for commercial use. There have been predictions that fusion power is just a few years away for the last 30 years. Maybe someday, but not likely in the near future

[Da Coyote]

“Just a decade away. /sarc off”
Drat, beat me to it.

[Nateman]

Direct detection of Gravity waves was something that once was ‘Only 20 years away’. Einstein believed it would never be achieved. In 2015 it was achieved.

[Red Badger]

The Infinity Two concept is uniquely based on the world’s only implementable, peer-reviewed physics basis for a fusion power plant, recently published in the Journal of Plasma Physics.

Nobody seems to realize that THIS is not some laboratory experiment. They are actually building a fusion reactor that will provide power to the grid. The TVA is involved, and global power providers are very interested in its design...............

[blackdog]

Does anyone else find the project name, "Infinity Two", to be a really funny bit of grad student humor that goes undetected by the institutions handing out cash?

What's next? "From here to Infinity and Back"? Our enthusiasm for wordsmithed phrases of promise have made the American version of language quite disingenuous and contradictory at times.

[Red Badger]

Well, I achieved in in 1993, but would THEY listen to me?............NOOOO-OOOOO-OOOO-OOO!.........Phooey on them and their Nobel Prizes!~~~~~~~~..........

[brookwood]

“maybe someday, but not likely in the near future”.
I read ITER in France has been pushed back 6 years because the French nuclear safety outfit decided it had too much radioactivity and might be dangerous for the workers. I say if they want to work there, let them. We let people jump out of airplanes with guns and stuff like that. I used to wear a radioactivity dosimeter badge at work, if it turned blue you left some uranium in your pocket by mistake.

[Red Badger]

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink”
― George Orwell, 1984

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself — that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.”
― George Orwell, 1984