First Light (Oxford University spinout) achieves nuclear fusion

Re:First Light (Oxford University spinout) achieves nuclear ... by labster on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @08:59PM (#30927135)

Only a small portion of the Sun (relatively speaking lol) is hot enough to fuse matter. It kinda sounds impossible the way you phrased it but it really isn’t. It’s just… 20 years off.

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Re:First Light (Oxford University spinout) achieves nuclear ... by rob74 on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @01:02AM (#30928666)

...and it's been 20 years off for the last 50 years, I've heard that joke before.

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Re:First Light (Oxford University spinout) achieves nuclear ... by labster on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @01:29AM (#30928782)

You’ll hear it again in ten years, too. I suspect fusion energy is possible, it’s just really hard. It’s like powered flight, which was imagined for centuries and we couldn’t quite do it, until suddenly someone did it. Eventually, the physics, materials, and engineering will make a path.

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