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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] 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I'm so used to hearing that this technology is 10 years away, or whatever the old adage was, that i can't believe we've been seeing actual progress on this front in the last few years. Maybe it will actually happen eventually!

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

Well, there's been incremental progress all along. I remember reading about milliseconds being a big accomplishment at some point.

Also, it's pretty heavily dependent on the exact plasma in question. One hot enough to do lots of fusion will probably be different, so this isn't the finish line. Relevant XKCD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

It just took someone without a profit motive