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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @04:07PM (#33975800)
> A large, complex machine that explodes the equivalent of 500 lb. bombs to generate heat to drive a turbine sounds like an engineering nightmare.

And using actual bombs and explosives to dig kilometers down and mine coal is not an engineering nightmare? Dying of gas in the mines, fires on oil wells, oil spills, these things are 'engineering simple'?

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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by pfdietz on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @04:45PM (#33976349)
We don't place precision optics in those blast zones. We don't put structures there that are repeatedly exposed to blast. Over the life of a inertial DT fusion reactor there will be about a BILLION such explosions in the reactor core.
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