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Re:China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough by tomw2005 on Friday November 11, 2016 @05:31AM (#12929463)
My Physics of Electrical Power Generation lecturer told us pretty flatly that we should not expect or bank on fusion power in our lifetimes. He said we should concentrate on renewables (which seems to be the way most countries are going in Europe at least).
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Re:China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough by kybernetikos on Friday November 11, 2016 @05:49AM (#12929563)
This is absolutely sensible at the current level of investment. The question is whether it would remain true with a big infusion of money or not.
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