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Nuclear fusion breakthrough: 'Holy grail' of power production is closer to reality as the world's biggest reactor - capable of reaching 200 MILLION degrees Celsius - is turned on in Japan
The Daily Mail ^ | 4 December 2023 | Jonathan Chadwick

Posted on 12/04/2023 7:32:09 AM PST by Alas Babylon!

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This would indeed be a major breakthrough!


1 posted on 12/04/2023 7:32:09 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: Alas Babylon!

Then Electric everything ? LOL


2 posted on 12/04/2023 7:33:03 AM PST by butlerweave
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capable of reaching 200 MILLION degrees Celsius

What could possibly go wrong?

3 posted on 12/04/2023 7:34:51 AM PST by Go Gordon
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4 posted on 12/04/2023 7:34:56 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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5 posted on 12/04/2023 7:35:08 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Alas Babylon!

This tech may actually be close to viability. My only question is how are the Climate Change Cultists going to object to it. You know they will. Why? Because the cult has nothing to do with climate. It’s goal is Marxism and the destruction of Western civilization. Period.


6 posted on 12/04/2023 7:36:25 AM PST by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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Hang on....200 million degrees???? What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
7 posted on 12/04/2023 7:37:16 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: Red Badger

History shows again and again how Nature points out the folly of Man.


8 posted on 12/04/2023 7:37:30 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Coming April 12, 2024.......................

9 posted on 12/04/2023 7:37:39 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Go Gordon

Great minds think alike.


10 posted on 12/04/2023 7:38:24 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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Better keep a Fire extinguisher handy.............


11 posted on 12/04/2023 7:38:31 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Alas Babylon!

How much energy does it take to heat the hydrogen to 300M degrees? What is the break-even point of energy in v. energy out?


12 posted on 12/04/2023 7:39:13 AM PST by HonorInPa
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/12/174018.html

LPP Fusion could actually bring about practical small scale aneutronic fusion. Soon.


13 posted on 12/04/2023 7:39:41 AM PST by MMusson
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To: Gay State Conservative

...and I thought those Teslas burned hot.


14 posted on 12/04/2023 7:41:28 AM PST by fhayek
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To: Alas Babylon!

One would think that the Japanese would be particularly wary of anything involving atoms at 200 million degrees.


15 posted on 12/04/2023 7:42:54 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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They’re a weenie roast by comparison.


16 posted on 12/04/2023 7:43:40 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: Alas Babylon!

It’s only 50 years away now.
Without this discovery, we would have had to wait for 50 years for fusion.


17 posted on 12/04/2023 7:43:46 AM PST by Jonty30 (I am happy to be of service to raise your awareness, make you think, and anger you. Simultaneously.)
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“£500 million fusion device”

Wow, that is cheap. I would like to see Elon Musk make these and take over the power grid.

I guess the climate alarmists can retire now.


18 posted on 12/04/2023 7:44:12 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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Is it earthquake hardened?

Because I like my tuna sandwich without radioactive isotopes.


19 posted on 12/04/2023 7:45:42 AM PST by SheepWhisperer (Get involved with, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
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To: piytar

Fusion is always about 20 years away from actually producing commercial power. It’s not anywhere close to practicality. I read that you have to get about eight times the energy out that you put in the plasma to break even to account for all of the energy used by the magnets, the cooling machinery, the transformer losses, etc. and then there’s the amortization of the capital costs. I’m beginning to think that fusion energy is just a form of welfare for engineers and physicists.


20 posted on 12/04/2023 7:45:52 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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