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China's 'artificial sun' shatters nuclear fusion record by generating steady loop of plasma for 1,000 seconds (www.livescience.com)

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[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 7 points 9 hours ago

It seems like it's probably too late.

Even if we crack fusion power today, I can't see it being deployed cheaply enough and quickly enough to compete with solar/wind+batteries. By the time we could get production fusion plants up and ready to feed power into the grid, it'd be 2050 and nobody would be interested in buying electricity from it.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 59 minutes ago

Fusion would provide orders of magnitude more power than solar. There's a limit on how much we can practically get from solar, fusion would allow us to exceed that.

[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 0 points 30 minutes ago

Yeah, but there's no prizes for producing way more power than we use. We're not running out of space to put solar panels or batteries.

[-] Farvana@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 23 minutes ago

In three decades, having a power source that can be placed away from the elements is going to be a very good thing.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 26 minutes ago

'Too much power' has never been an issue, and will likely not be an issue ever with solar. There are multitudes of technologies, especially in industry, that are currently impractical because they would consume too much energy.