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Re:Nuclear-fusion reactor doubles record for energy made fro... by Aeolun on Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:06AM (#30454173)
I find it hard to believe that people would be seriously researching this if we already knew there could never be any sensible commercial application.

More likely we just don’t know the way to make it viable yet.

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Re:Nuclear-fusion reactor doubles record for energy made fro... by ncmncm on Friday February 25, 2022 @09:43PM (#30474842)
In some hypothetically possible world, policy choices are based the best reasoning from the latest information. We, alas, live in this world, where policy is mainly a product of history. The H bomb legacy looms large here.

We are in the position of the person whose car keys were lost somewhere, but we are looking only under the D-T fusion streetlight because we can't see anywhere else.

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