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Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times (www.cnn.com)

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 122 points 10 months ago

They boiled 10 kettles of water with this energy.

Ultimately, if everything is optimized, its probably only limited by the number of kettles available.

[-] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago

Could we somehow capture the steam from all the kettles to turn a turbine? I see zero problems with this plan.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

Coal or nuclear, it's all steam baby

[-] ThePancake@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

I know this is probably tongue in cheek, but I genuinely thought the same until recently. There's a company called Helion which is developing a really cool fusion process that doesn't use steam as an energy transfer mechanism. Obviously it has its own set of drawbacks and roadblocks, but still really cool tech in the making.

Here's the video I saw going into detail on it if anyone's interested:

https://youtu.be/_bDXXWQxK38?si=iBpHfDxhRgHHRtN2

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

I hope this actually pans out, but I am suspicious that it won’t. Mostly just because of they way they have this air of tech bro hype around them; hopefully I just learned about it through poor sources because it would be freakin cool if it worked

[-] ThePancake@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Yep, this was pretty much my exact reaction as well. I haven't really dug into it since, but it was an interesting twist on fusion that would be sweet if it made some progress!

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah I've seen that one.

Honestly I don't have high hopes, they believe their next model will solve the shortcomings they face with it's size, but that could reveal a whole other set of issues.

[-] ThePancake@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Same, expectations are definitely in check, but cool none the less! I feel like there are a lot of hiccups here that would need to be smoothed out before this would become anything remotely feasible.

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[-] atocci@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

We're gonna spin those turbines so good

[-] sfxrlz@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

And we’re gonna have the mexicans pay for it.

[-] doofy77@aussie.zone 11 points 10 months ago

The UK will become an energy powerhouse.

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