U.S. officials expected to announce fusion energy breakthrough in clean, unlimited power

justthenews.com ^ | 12/12/2022 | Madeleine Hubbard

[bitt]

Scientists have researched fusion since the 1950s.

The Energy Department is expected to announce Tuesday that scientists have reached a breakthrough in nuclear fusion in their quest to produce a technology to provide clean, unlimited and affordable power.

Scientists have researched fusion since the 1950s, and the Biden administration is likely to affirm the massive, decades-long investment, according to the Washington Post reported.

"To most of us, this was only a matter of time," a senior fusion scientist told the newspaper.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is expected to make the announcement Tuesday at a media event her department is promoting as the unveiling of a "major scientific breakthrough."

The department and the lab declined to comment to the Post, but an official said researchers are still finalizing their analysis and will not publish official findings before Tuesday.

[StormEye]

And fusion is still 25 years in the future again.

[bitt]

https://www.ft.com/content/4b6f0fab-66ef-4e33-adec-cfc345589dc7

Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes

Net energy gain indicates technology could provide an abundant zero-carbon alternative to fossil fuels

[joshua c]

is this like when the bartlett administration almost cured cancer?

[jerod]

It’s super fantastic... But they can wait until Tuesday to announce it?

More nonsense.

[Romulus]

Not in our lifetimes.

[Leaning Right]

Everyone in the government lies. And the Biden administration lies even when they don’t have to.
So I’m guessing that there is no real fusion energy breakthrough.

[BipolarBob]

These photos were caught on long range telephoto lens at the testing area.

[granite]

They’ll tell us anything to get us to go along with their evil machinations. (And some will believe them).

[MinorityRepublican]

They may be able to do it in a lab. But they will have to build a reactor. And it will have to be big enough to power a major city.

[Paladin2]

Only 20 years away^TM...

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Net energy gain indicates technology could provide an abundant zero-carbon alternative to fossil fuels

There's nothing wrong with "Fossil fuels" They're completely natural, from compost. They're...like..."Organic"....Man.

[joshua c]

oh its a breakthrough

only 100 more to go

before they have a working model

[EEGator]

I declare shenanigans. Release all info. All the math, which includes all the inputs.

[Adder]

In other news, perpetual motion machine within reach!

Show me a working model, at least.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Baloney. They did a lab experiment. Building and commercializing controlled fusion energy is impossible now. We don't even know what designs, alloys, and materials we could use to commercialize this. Maybe 50 years from now, at the earliest, if humans are still around.

[Sarcazmo]

Oh shit Bob. Beer is expensive. Can’t it use banana peels or something?

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Someone needs more research money. Other fusion energy breakthroughs:

Exclusive: Secretive fusion company claims reactor breakthrough 24 August 2015
https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-secretive-fusion-company-claims-reactor-breakthrough

MIT nuclear fusion record marks latest step towards unlimited clean energy 17 October 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/17/mit-nuclear-fusion-record-marks-latest-step-towards-unlimited-clean-energy

Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy 9 February 2022
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60312633

Fusion energy's scalability problems still remain.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

>> an official said researchers are still finalizing their analysis LIES and will not publish official findings before Tuesday.

[BipolarBob]

Sorry, it looks like it’s Miller time. At least it wasn’t a Guinness or a craft IPA.