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World’s biggest nuclear fusion reactor comes online (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The scientists used lasers to fuse two light atoms into a single one, releasing 3.15MJ (megajoules) of energy from 2.05MJ of input – roughly enough to boil a kettle.

Why do we even study this? Renewables are the only way. This is a waste of money which is a finite resource.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Do you have a basic understanding of the challenges of getting electricity from a fusion reaction vs the challenges of manufacturing PV panels?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Seeing as you deliberately seem to be missing the point in order to try and feel smarter I’m going to leave you to it. Have a good one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I asked a question, a relevant one. Your reaction to that question is your problem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So we should just give up? No.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

We can carry on throwing money at it, I'm fine with that. Thinking that fusion is going to save us is dangerous though. We need to be taking action now to get us off fossil fuels and the most cost-effective way to do that is renewables + storage.