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

submitted 11 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] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

The comment by op kind of feels weird...

But. More options are always good, and this provides more options, with the added benefit of creating helium (which is a limited resource, and gets mainly harvested when mining fossil fuels at the moment).

So this actually helps solve more than 1 problem, if they can get it to work

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

this lemmy gets it

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