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Re:Nuclear physicist explains why fusion ignition is hailed ... by manholio on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:09AM (#34052182)
> rather than the previous "we have no idea if we'll ever be able to engineer this thing".

We still have no idea if we'll ever be able to engineer this thing to produce commercially useful energy. And we probably never will, for all interesting values of "never", the challenges are simply so massive.

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Re:Nuclear physicist explains why fusion ignition is hailed ... by Robotbeat on Monday December 19, 2022 @10:19AM (#34053055)
We have some idea, but wasn’t worth pursuing before we had achieved ignition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy
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