Re:Tencent-Backed UK Startup First Light Achieves Nuclear Fu...
by OJFord on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @06:41AM
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Claims it's 1000x cheaper, so I suppose that's the breakthrough. Fusion has been achieved, you're right; next step is creating more energy than is consumed to do so; then commercialising it.
This makes it cheaper/easier to commercialise, but no closer (maybe further away, nothing claimed in the article) to the second step of getting more out than in.
This makes it cheaper/easier to commercialise, but no closer (maybe further away, nothing claimed in the article) to the second step of getting more out than in.