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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I feel like little fusion has kind of missed the boat. It's been "just a few decades away" since I was in school, and that's a good while ago now.

We can already get limitless clean energy from the real sun.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

  1. We should do both

  2. There is no two.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 hours ago

Here's why it's been so long: