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World’s biggest nuclear fusion reactor comes online (www.independent.co.uk)
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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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[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hey! It’s Green Charcoal buddy, none of that regular polluting stuff.

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

Is this the clean coal Trump promised?

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Primitive Technology guy is more important than ever.