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UK's nuclear fusion site ends experiments after 40 years (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The JET laboratory, the focus of European fusion experiments for decades, carries out its last test.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting it's as specialized as it is but many dams pump water up the reservoir during low consumption times to store for periods where power is needed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A soon as I started typing I realised it's probably not too exciting. I think it's always had that mythic element growing up near it of imagining the amount of work needed for lots of cups of tea to be made at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Don't sweat it, still a cool little thing.