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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

How about fusion power and room temperature superconductors...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

ITER is still well under way as far as fusion goes. I doubt room temp super conductors will ever be a thing though. If we can get a metalic material which superconducts above the boiling point of nitrogen then that will be world changing enough.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

LOL. ITER is not and has never been meant to be a fusion power plant. That would be DEMO.

Don't hold your breath.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOnstration_Power_Plant

Fusion power will never, ever happen. Ever.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Look at CFS SPARC, not ITER

They will have an actual functioning fusion machine with Q>10 by end of this year thanks to high temperature superconductors that were not available when ITER started

https://cfs.energy/

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Thanks for the laugh!

I've put a note in my calendar for December 2025.

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