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A comment on Proxima Fusion looks to take stellarators commercial. Parent comment
Did anyone seriously believe it was impossible to get "q" > 1 fusion by blasting a pellet of hydrogen hard enough?
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Significant hurdles != "There is not currently a/no known path"
I'm still toning down from "a path is impossible" which ought to be the consensus.
> a few decades of research on the underlying technologies could put us in a position to build a power plant
No.
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Did anyone seriously believe it was impossible to get "q" > 1 fusion by blasting a pellet of hydrogen hard enough?
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Significant hurdles != "There is not currently a/no known path"
I'm still toning down from "a path is impossible" which ought to be the consensus.
> a few decades of research on the underlying technologies could put us in a position to build a power plant
No.