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

[Alas Babylon!]

This would indeed be a major breakthrough!

[butlerweave]

Then Electric everything ? LOL

[Go Gordon]

capable of reaching 200 MILLION degrees Celsius

What could possibly go wrong?

[dfwgator]

[Red Badger]

[piytar]

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.

[Gay State Conservative]

Hang on....200 million degrees???? What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

[dfwgator]

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

[Red Badger]

Coming April 12, 2024.......................

[Gay State Conservative]

Great minds think alike.

[Red Badger]

Better keep a Fire extinguisher handy.............

[HonorInPa]

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?

[MMusson]

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/12/174018.html

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

[fhayek]

...and I thought those Teslas burned hot.

[Gay State Conservative]

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

[Gay State Conservative]

They’re a weenie roast by comparison.

[Jonty30]

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

[UnwashedPeasant]

“£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.

[SheepWhisperer]

Is it earthquake hardened?

Because I like my tuna sandwich without radioactive isotopes.

[from occupied ga]

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.