Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du...
by zamadatix on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @07:52PM
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The Sun consumes a mass equivalent of a mount Everest worth of hydrogen via fusion to shine for just an hour (or thereabouts if I did my math right :), I'm sure someone will tell me soon if not). For perspective, this amount of energy is more than enough to power the Earth's current electrical usage for over a billion years.
That's all before getting into how a containment failure doesn't imply "and then everything nearby just started a self sustaining fusion chain reaction" anyways.
That's all before getting into how a containment failure doesn't imply "and then everything nearby just started a self sustaining fusion chain reaction" anyways.