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Anonymous Coward User ID: 66193643 United States 08/13/2022 08:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | this is truly a phenomenally huge event for mankind... Quoting: 82ndAirborneSniper remember how different only 40 years ago was, no electric cars, no personal computers, no mobile phones, no GPS, no technology that was almost unimaginable 40 years ago, even only 20 years ago, we are living and experiencing and benefitting from today in ways we could never see possible just only years (not even decades) ago... with this new realization, all the world will soon benefit from yet another technological advancement that will not only make our best mobile phones, greatest microchips, and semiconductors and most advanced technology look infinitesimal in importance... soon all our planet will have limitless, free energy...to do with as we please...everything will change Limitless and free, as long as you have your Beast Mark. These fuckers have had this big heavy fusion tech since teh 1950s. |
IFartInYourDirection User ID: 83400565 United States 08/13/2022 08:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Linitless energy would automatically lead to limitless surveillance. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77624816 All science, data and machinery that contributed to this horrific "breakthrough" needs to be erased from existence, lest we end up as a never-ending global slave camp. Aren’t you just a ray of sunshine… |
ADEND User ID: 83194324 United States 08/13/2022 08:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: 82ndAirborneSniper YOUR FACTS ARE WRONG READ THE ARTICLE THIS IS A MAJOR GROUNDBREAKING EVENT FOR MANKIND No, I'm not wrong. The article is written by a stupid journalist that fail to connect the dot. "heavy hydrogen atoms collide with enough force that they fuse together to form a helium atom" And guess what are those "heavy hydrogen atoms" ?? Yes, it's Deuterium, as I said. And we have limited supply on earth, with no way to make it back once it's changed into helium. Actually, they were using Tritium when I met with them. Maybe they use Deuterium now. No idea. [link to www.science.org (secure)] Your article talk about Tritium fusion WITH Deuterium, so yes it still use Deuterium. Clean energy: yes Free energy at no cost: no, deuterium and tritium are exepensive to get Limitless energy: Certainly NOT, as I said, deuterium will be depleted in no time, and will be gone for ever. This. Not that I don't think you can find ways to tap energy at costs substantially lower than our current averages, but If I told you we are creating plants where we are bringing rare and radioactive isotopes to create energy you wouldn't expect free power will result. This is Buzzwords and Hyperbole. Last Edited by ADEND on 08/13/2022 08:24 AM |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 84009612 United States 08/13/2022 08:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It is the BIGGEST FRAUD perpetrated by BAFFLED "scientists" in history. IT WILL NEVER achieve commercial viability, and these loathsome lying rat bastards KNOW THIS FULL WELL. It is a CASH COW for them, and how these criminals sleep at night, I do not know. |
JustmeTX User ID: 80193276 United States 08/13/2022 08:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It is the BIGGEST FRAUD perpetrated by BAFFLED "scientists" in history. IT WILL NEVER achieve commercial viability, and these loathsome lying rat bastards KNOW THIS FULL WELL. It is a CASH COW for them, and how these criminals sleep at night, I do not know. The reaction works quite well on the Sun. Keeping us all alive for the last several billion years. Last Edited by JustmeTX on 08/13/2022 08:21 AM Justme |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 81366458 France 08/13/2022 08:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think Nuclear Fusion Powerplant is a stupid idea. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 81366458 Why? It uses deuterium, and we have limited supply of deuterium on earth, and it will be depleted in no time. Fission is better imo. 1) Fission creates highly radioactive long half life waste;Fusion creates no wastes. A Fission reaction can run away.. If a fusion reaction loses any temperature(energy) at all it quits by itself.(say we turn off the magnets, it shuts down.). 2)The ocean is full of deuterium :plus we can make it from water. "Deuterium has a natural abundance in Earth's oceans of about one atom in 6420 of hydrogen. Thus deuterium accounts for approximately 0.0156% (0.0312% by mass) of all the naturally occurring hydrogen in the oceans, " 3)Plus we can make it from water. "In theory, deuterium for heavy water could be created in a nuclear reactor, but separation from ordinary water is the cheapest bulk production process." [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] Yes I know it can be extracted from water (you don't "make" it). Now making Deuterium in a Nuclear reactor would be very difficult or maybe impossible with our current knowledge. But of course everything is possible in chemistry, and when we will be able to do it then Fusion could be considered as a sustainable power source. Now as someone mentioned earlier the deuterium consumption isn't that high in a ITER reactor, so i had to admit that Nuclear Fusion is maybe a good idea |
JustmeTX User ID: 80193276 United States 08/13/2022 08:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think Nuclear Fusion Powerplant is a stupid idea. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 81366458 Why? It uses deuterium, and we have limited supply of deuterium on earth, and it will be depleted in no time. Fission is better imo. 1) Fission creates highly radioactive long half life waste;Fusion creates no wastes. A Fission reaction can run away.. If a fusion reaction loses any temperature(energy) at all it quits by itself.(say we turn off the magnets, it shuts down.). 2)The ocean is full of deuterium :plus we can make it from water. "Deuterium has a natural abundance in Earth's oceans of about one atom in 6420 of hydrogen. Thus deuterium accounts for approximately 0.0156% (0.0312% by mass) of all the naturally occurring hydrogen in the oceans, " 3)Plus we can make it from water. "In theory, deuterium for heavy water could be created in a nuclear reactor, but separation from ordinary water is the cheapest bulk production process." [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] Yes I know it can be extracted from water (you don't "make" it). Now making Deuterium in a Nuclear reactor would be very difficult or maybe impossible with our current knowledge. But of course everything is possible in chemistry, and when we will be able to do it then Fusion could be considered as a sustainable power source. Now as someone mentioned earlier the deuterium consumption isn't that high in a ITER reactor, so i had to admit that Nuclear Fusion is maybe a good idea It said in the article that you still haven't managed to read yet, that Deuterium can be made. It is just way cheaper to extract it from water. I even cited the sententence and put it in BOLD for you. Are you sure you are sentient? Last Edited by JustmeTX on 08/13/2022 08:30 AM Justme |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 81312184 United Kingdom 08/13/2022 08:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | While all the crazy shit is going on in the world...is going on...something truly phenomenal has recently happened for humankind...it happened 8/8/21, but can only just be reported now, to follow all of the precedence and scientific standards of communication required to verify this type of an event...there are over 1,000 scientists and authors who had to verify and contribute to this documented event...mankind is moving closer to energy independence for one and all... Quoting: 82ndAirborneSniper [link to www.newsweek.com (secure)] " major breakthrough in nuclear fusion has been confirmed a year after it was achieved at a laboratory in California. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL's) National Ignition Facility (NIF) recorded the first case of ignition on August 8, 2021, the results of which have now been published in three peer-reviewed papers. Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the Sun and other stars: heavy hydrogen atoms collide with enough force that they fuse together to form a helium atom, releasing large amounts of energy as a by-product. Once the hydrogen plasma "ignites", the fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining, with the fusions themselves producing enough power to maintain the temperature without external heating. Ignition during a fusion reaction essentially means that the reaction itself produced enough energy to be self-sustaining, which would be necessary in the use of fusion to generate electricity. " --82nd Airborne Combat Veteran |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 80682726 United States 08/13/2022 08:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | While all the crazy shit is going on in the world...is going on...something truly phenomenal has recently happened for humankind...it happened 8/8/21, but can only just be reported now, to follow all of the precedence and scientific standards of communication required to verify this type of an event...there are over 1,000 scientists and authors who had to verify and contribute to this documented event...mankind is moving closer to energy independence for one and all... Quoting: 82ndAirborneSniper [link to www.newsweek.com (secure)] " major breakthrough in nuclear fusion has been confirmed a year after it was achieved at a laboratory in California. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL's) National Ignition Facility (NIF) recorded the first case of ignition on August 8, 2021, the results of which have now been published in three peer-reviewed papers. Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the Sun and other stars: heavy hydrogen atoms collide with enough force that they fuse together to form a helium atom, releasing large amounts of energy as a by-product. Once the hydrogen plasma "ignites", the fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining, with the fusions themselves producing enough power to maintain the temperature without external heating. Ignition during a fusion reaction essentially means that the reaction itself produced enough energy to be self-sustaining, which would be necessary in the use of fusion to generate electricity. " --82nd Airborne Combat Veteran Haha. Eh henh! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 84009612 United States 08/13/2022 08:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It is the BIGGEST FRAUD perpetrated by BAFFLED "scientists" in history. IT WILL NEVER achieve commercial viability, and these loathsome lying rat bastards KNOW THIS FULL WELL. It is a CASH COW for them, and how these criminals sleep at night, I do not know. The reaction works quite well on the Sun. Keeping us all alive for the last several billion years. Nuclear fusion works great in STARS. They have spent TRILLIONS of dollars, pissed down the toilet, to make that happen here on Earth. With ALL THAT TIME, MONEY and wasted effort, all they have to show for it is a FIZZLE. YOU and your GREAT GRANDCHILDREN will never live to see commercially viable fusion generated power. No matter how many more dollars that we don't have disappear into this black hole. There are a few HONEST SCIENTISTS, who aren't at the trough, who have told the truth about the LIE. (if you care about the TRUTH) Then again, if you think we have been here for several billion years, I question your sanity. |
JustmeTX User ID: 80193276 United States 08/13/2022 08:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It is the BIGGEST FRAUD perpetrated by BAFFLED "scientists" in history. IT WILL NEVER achieve commercial viability, and these loathsome lying rat bastards KNOW THIS FULL WELL. It is a CASH COW for them, and how these criminals sleep at night, I do not know. The reaction works quite well on the Sun. Keeping us all alive for the last several billion years. Nuclear fusion works great in STARS. They have spent TRILLIONS of dollars, pissed down the toilet, to make that happen here on Earth. With ALL THAT TIME, MONEY and wasted effort, all they have to show for it is a FIZZLE. YOU and your GREAT GRANDCHILDREN will never live to see commercially viable fusion generated power. No matter how many more dollars that we don't have disappear into this black hole. There are a few HONEST SCIENTISTS, who aren't at the trough, who have told the truth about the LIE. (if you care about the TRUTH) Then again, if you think we have been here for several billion years, I question your sanity. Google says life has existed on Earth for 3.7 billion years. For there to be any life, there must be a working Sun. I meant "We" as in life, since the subject was how long the Sun's fusion reaction has been kicking off Energy. Justme |
JustmeTX User ID: 80193276 United States 08/13/2022 08:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | While all the crazy shit is going on in the world...is going on...something truly phenomenal has recently happened for humankind...it happened 8/8/21, but can only just be reported now, to follow all of the precedence and scientific standards of communication required to verify this type of an event...there are over 1,000 scientists and authors who had to verify and contribute to this documented event...mankind is moving closer to energy independence for one and all... Quoting: 82ndAirborneSniper [link to www.newsweek.com (secure)] " major breakthrough in nuclear fusion has been confirmed a year after it was achieved at a laboratory in California. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL's) National Ignition Facility (NIF) recorded the first case of ignition on August 8, 2021, the results of which have now been published in three peer-reviewed papers. Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the Sun and other stars: heavy hydrogen atoms collide with enough force that they fuse together to form a helium atom, releasing large amounts of energy as a by-product. Once the hydrogen plasma "ignites", the fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining, with the fusions themselves producing enough power to maintain the temperature without external heating. Ignition during a fusion reaction essentially means that the reaction itself produced enough energy to be self-sustaining, which would be necessary in the use of fusion to generate electricity. " --82nd Airborne Combat Veteran They just DID achieve Fusion. That is kinda the point of this discussion! Justme |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 66193643 United States 08/13/2022 08:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think Nuclear Fusion Powerplant is a stupid idea. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 81366458 Why? It uses deuterium, and we have limited supply of deuterium on earth, and it will be depleted in no time. Fission is better imo. 1) Fission creates highly radioactive long half life waste;Fusion creates no wastes. A Fission reaction can run away.. If a fusion reaction loses any temperature(energy) at all it quits by itself.(say we turn off the magnets, it shuts down.). 2)The ocean is full of deuterium :plus we can make it from water. "Deuterium has a natural abundance in Earth's oceans of about one atom in 6420 of hydrogen. Thus deuterium accounts for approximately 0.0156% (0.0312% by mass) of all the naturally occurring hydrogen in the oceans, " 3)Plus we can make it from water. "In theory, deuterium for heavy water could be created in a nuclear reactor, but separation from ordinary water is the cheapest bulk production process." [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] Yes I know it can be extracted from water (you don't "make" it). Now making Deuterium in a Nuclear reactor would be very difficult or maybe impossible with our current knowledge. But of course everything is possible in chemistry, and when we will be able to do it then Fusion could be considered as a sustainable power source. Now as someone mentioned earlier the deuterium consumption isn't that high in a ITER reactor, so i had to admit that Nuclear Fusion is maybe a good idea You don't "make" deuterium, you extract it from sea water. It's free. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 81312184 United Kingdom 08/13/2022 08:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | While all the crazy shit is going on in the world...is going on...something truly phenomenal has recently happened for humankind...it happened 8/8/21, but can only just be reported now, to follow all of the precedence and scientific standards of communication required to verify this type of an event...there are over 1,000 scientists and authors who had to verify and contribute to this documented event...mankind is moving closer to energy independence for one and all... Quoting: 82ndAirborneSniper [link to www.newsweek.com (secure)] " major breakthrough in nuclear fusion has been confirmed a year after it was achieved at a laboratory in California. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL's) National Ignition Facility (NIF) recorded the first case of ignition on August 8, 2021, the results of which have now been published in three peer-reviewed papers. Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the Sun and other stars: heavy hydrogen atoms collide with enough force that they fuse together to form a helium atom, releasing large amounts of energy as a by-product. Once the hydrogen plasma "ignites", the fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining, with the fusions themselves producing enough power to maintain the temperature without external heating. Ignition during a fusion reaction essentially means that the reaction itself produced enough energy to be self-sustaining, which would be necessary in the use of fusion to generate electricity. " --82nd Airborne Combat Veteran They just DID achieve Fusion. That is kinda the point of this discussion! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 83971128 United States 08/13/2022 08:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | russia, iran and saudi arabia would collapse. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 43840429 coal and nuclear industries would collapse. cost of global travel would plummet. price of food would drop drastically. Rofl no it wouldn't. The oil industry is not going anywhere. You fail to realize that oil is also used to make plastics and many of the meds people take. And lets face it until battery technology improves oil will still be used to power vehicles, trains and military equipment. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 84006144 Jordan 08/13/2022 08:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Fusion, hot or cold, has been available for decades but kept under the rug. If they release this tech, then it was planned and is part of the transition to a new system. Free energy will make money obsolete as well as the current power structure keeping 8 bil people under control. Why go to work if you have free energy? The whole thing collapses, unless... they have a plan where they reduce the population (COVID) and release new tech (actually old tech) that can kick-start a new age. I'd be surprised if they allow it. We had free energy since Tesla and before, but all was put under wraps. |
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Justthefacts12345 User ID: 82824711 United States 08/13/2022 08:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If they can contain it & harness it, it sounds like a major breakthru that could be helpful in the future. That is, if we all make it to the future! Not to be black pilled or anything, we've seen this before & they always seem to die & nothing is ever done! Why would they allow this out now? They want to kill 95% of us & create their own little Garden of Eden, without us. I applaud their discovery, but remain skeptical. Until we see large scale development of this relatively low cost energy, I'm not getting my hopes up! |
ShortStop User ID: 84009720 United States 08/13/2022 08:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Tritium will be produced by a Breeder type reaction in the Tokamak. Quoting: JustmeTX The danger was, if their first couple attempts fail, then they are out of the stuff. (Unless they bust up the containment structure, and recover the atoms from the rubble somehow). Once they get a breeder reactor going, life is good as they say. [link to www.iter.org (secure)] Bump to answer the previous question "Tritium and deuterium are two isotopes of hydrogen that will be used to fuel the fusion reaction in ITER. While deuterium can be extracted from seawater in virtually boundless quantities, the supply of available tritium is limited, estimated currently at twenty kilos. A second source of tritium fortunately exists: tritium can be produced within the tokamak when neutrons escaping the plasma interact with a specific element—lithium—contained in the blanket. " Cold fusion is what we need, a milestone are the thorium reactors until they get the donuts up and spinning There is also Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) that uses heavy water. Mike Adams guest hosted infowars and had a guest named David Martinez. David said we could see this in 2 years. Large group of scientists working on this. This is something that can power a home for 10 years before the heavy water needs to be changed. This device produces heat and another device converts heat to electricity. [link to brillouinenergy.com (secure)] [link to www.bitchute.com (secure)] |
Fhre A'an User ID: 82169090 United States 08/13/2022 09:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It solves the bitcoin energy problem, too! And the little birdie eagles won't get their heads chopped off in the Palm Springs Fake Fan Forest. And the $40k you would have to spend to get solar panels would save a lot of money and the ecology when they go bad and can't be recycled. And the billions of gallons of water wasted in mining lithium and the poor children with blue hands digging up cobalt with dessert spoons. Who gets the patent money? Is that were Fauci has been? Was any AI bots helping them out? Are they single? The Ais will post "I'm looking for an Engery War Husband," on Plenty of Fish. I raise my hand and promise to polish them off every day and I'll take all our patent money to pay the other lesser programed AIs to do the chores around the house. Ouch, that sounds a bit AIsist! As above, so below. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 84009591 India 08/13/2022 09:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | this is truly a phenomenally huge event for mankind... Quoting: 82ndAirborneSniper remember how different only 40 years ago was, no electric cars, no personal computers, no mobile phones, no GPS, no technology that was almost unimaginable 40 years ago, even only 20 years ago, we are living and experiencing and benefitting from today in ways we could never see possible just only years (not even decades) ago... with this new realization, all the world will soon benefit from yet another technological advancement that will not only make our best mobile phones, greatest microchips, and semiconductors and most advanced technology look infinitesimal in importance... soon all our planet will have limitless, free energy...to do with as we please...everything will change Limitless and free, as long as you have your Beast Mark. These fuckers have had this big heavy fusion tech since teh 1950s. Hydrogen from water fracture was used by the Soviets during the seige of Leningrad. That's how they faught the blockade. Dumbass academia is still trying to figure out bubble tech. They even pulled the plug on Pons and Fleischmann when it suited their narrative. Limitless free energy has been known at least since the 20s. I mean 1920. |
VampPatriot User ID: 83109956 Indonesia 08/13/2022 09:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well that would be one way to power a starship, combined with unified field theory. Too bad at this rate humanity will go extinct before that ever happens Sic Semper Tyrannis. "FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. WAR IS PEACE. STAYING APART BRINGS US TOGETHER." NWO Mantra |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 83964553 United States 08/13/2022 09:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | this is truly a phenomenally huge event for mankind... Quoting: 82ndAirborneSniper remember how different only 40 years ago was, no electric cars, no personal computers, no mobile phones, no GPS, no technology that was almost unimaginable 40 years ago, even only 20 years ago, we are living and experiencing and benefitting from today in ways we could never see possible just only years (not even decades) ago... with this new realization, all the world will soon benefit from yet another technological advancement that will not only make our best mobile phones, greatest microchips, and semiconductors and most advanced technology look infinitesimal in importance... soon all our planet will have limitless, free energy...to do with as we please...everything will change Do you think we’ll still need mindless individuals killing people at a distance on the orders of evil politicians? |
Weisshaupt User ID: 80494230 United States 08/13/2022 09:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | While all the crazy shit is going on in the world...is going on...something truly phenomenal has recently happened for humankind...it happened 8/8/21, but can only just be reported now, to follow all of the precedence and scientific standards of communication required to verify this type of an event...there are over 1,000 scientists and authors who had to verify and contribute to this documented event...mankind is moving closer to energy independence for one and all... Quoting: 82ndAirborneSniper [link to www.newsweek.com (secure)] " major breakthrough in nuclear fusion has been confirmed a year after it was achieved at a laboratory in California. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL's) National Ignition Facility (NIF) recorded the first case of ignition on August 8, 2021, the results of which have now been published in three peer-reviewed papers. Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the Sun and other stars: heavy hydrogen atoms collide with enough force that they fuse together to form a helium atom, releasing large amounts of energy as a by-product. Once the hydrogen plasma "ignites", the fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining, with the fusions themselves producing enough power to maintain the temperature without external heating. Ignition during a fusion reaction essentially means that the reaction itself produced enough energy to be self-sustaining, which would be necessary in the use of fusion to generate electricity. " --82nd Airborne Combat Veteran Mankind has achieve nuclear fusion ignitions before. Every thermonuclear weapon uses that process. This is simply the first ignition for a certain type of confinement. Usually such ignitions require more energy be put in.. I did not see where they state this one actually produced more energy sustainably over time. Fusion power is still a long way out folks You want something now? Thorium Salt reactors are your path. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 83964553 United States 08/13/2022 09:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | While all the crazy shit is going on in the world...is going on...something truly phenomenal has recently happened for humankind...it happened 8/8/21, but can only just be reported now, to follow all of the precedence and scientific standards of communication required to verify this type of an event...there are over 1,000 scientists and authors who had to verify and contribute to this documented event...mankind is moving closer to energy independence for one and all... Quoting: 82ndAirborneSniper [link to www.newsweek.com (secure)] " major breakthrough in nuclear fusion has been confirmed a year after it was achieved at a laboratory in California. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL's) National Ignition Facility (NIF) recorded the first case of ignition on August 8, 2021, the results of which have now been published in three peer-reviewed papers. Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the Sun and other stars: heavy hydrogen atoms collide with enough force that they fuse together to form a helium atom, releasing large amounts of energy as a by-product. Once the hydrogen plasma "ignites", the fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining, with the fusions themselves producing enough power to maintain the temperature without external heating. Ignition during a fusion reaction essentially means that the reaction itself produced enough energy to be self-sustaining, which would be necessary in the use of fusion to generate electricity. " --82nd Airborne Combat Veteran Mankind has achieve nuclear fusion ignitions before. Every thermonuclear weapon uses that process. This is simply the first ignition for a certain type of confinement. Usually such ignitions require more energy be put in.. I did not see where they state this one actually produced more energy sustainably over time. Fusion power is still a long way out folks You want something now? Thorium Salt reactors are your path. ^^^^^^^^^^ This! Thorium reactors are safe and efficient, and there is a tremendous amount of thorium, easily obtainable, on the planet; orders of magnitude more thorium than uranium. However, those governments that are nuclear-capable, or wish to be, won’t build them, as they cannot be used to produce fissile material for nuclear weapons. |