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China's 'artificial sun' shatters nuclear fusion record by generating steady loop of plasma for 1,000 seconds (www.livescience.com)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (35 children)

It seems like it's probably too late.

Even if we crack fusion power today, I can't see it being deployed cheaply enough and quickly enough to compete with solar/wind+batteries. By the time we could get production fusion plants up and ready to feed power into the grid, it'd be 2050 and nobody would be interested in buying electricity from it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Fusion would provide orders of magnitude more power than solar. There's a limit on how much we can practically get from solar, fusion would allow us to exceed that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Yeah, but there's no prizes for producing way more power than we use. We're not running out of space to put solar panels or batteries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

In three decades, having a power source that can be placed away from the elements is going to be a very good thing.

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