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Scientists achieve major breakthrough in the quest for limitless energy: 'It's setting a world record' (www.yahoo.com)
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[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

Ha, yeah, you're right. Looks to be a stock image of a tokomak render. The original report by Interesting Engineering has a photo of the actual device:

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

I need a banana for scale. I think it's slightly taller than a story?

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

~~See the red and white dashed line? That's the width of a 6 lane freeway.~~

Edit: joke clearly unappreciated, here is a photo with people standing next to it: https://arpa-e.energy.gov/news-and-media/blog-posts/arpa-e-investor-update-vol-17-realta-fusion-magnetic-mirror

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I appreciate your dad joke.

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