MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy

Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by ncmncm on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:21PM (#28465135)

Anybody looking at numbers sees fusion never, ever producing so much as a single erg of commercially viable energy. So, anybody saying otherwise is simply making it up.

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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by craftinator on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:31PM (#28465562)

> So, anybody saying otherwise is simply making it up.

You do see the irony of embedding this statement in a comment full of generalization and hyperbole, and lacking any evidence or credible sources, right? I genuinely laughed until I realized it may not have been intended as a joke.

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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by vajrabum on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:03PM (#28465373)

What numbers are those? Or perhaps you even have a citation from work done on the topic by reputable physicists?

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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by tcmart14 on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:44AM (#28466290)

And neither did any other invention until they reached a certain scale, price point or level of sophistication. The counter to your comment would be, fusion is still very much in the R&D phase. As being in the R&D phase like so many other products were at one time, of course it has not met your expectation. But neither did Airplanes after the first flight.

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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by JohnJamesRambo on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:12AM (#28466481)

The sun does pretty well.

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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by wiz21c on Thursday September 09, 2021 @02:48AM (#28467012)

Except we didn't need to invest money in it...

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