Comment on Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times

• c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Coal or nuclear, it’s all steam baby

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  • ThePancake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I know this is probably tongue in cheek, but I genuinely thought the same until recently. There’s a company called Helion which is developing a really cool fusion process that doesn’t use steam as an energy transfer mechanism. Obviously it has its own set of drawbacks and roadblocks, but still really cool tech in the making.

    Here’s the video I saw going into detail on it if anyone’s interested:

    youtu.be/_bDXXWQxK38?si=iBpHfDxhRgHHRtN2

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    • 4am@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I hope this actually pans out, but I am suspicious that it won’t. Mostly just because of they way they have this air of tech bro hype around them; hopefully I just learned about it through poor sources because it would be freakin cool if it worked

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      • ThePancake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yep, this was pretty much my exact reaction as well. I haven’t really dug into it since, but it was an interesting twist on fusion that would be sweet if it made some progress!

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    • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh yeah I’ve seen that one.

      Honestly I don’t have high hopes, they believe their next model will solve the shortcomings they face with it’s size, but that could reveal a whole other set of issues.

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      • ThePancake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Same, expectations are definitely in check, but cool none the less! I feel like there are a lot of hiccups here that would need to be smoothed out before this would become anything remotely feasible.

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  • atocci@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We're gonna spin those turbines so good

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    • sfxrlz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And we’re gonna have the mexicans pay for it.

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• doofy77@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The UK will become an energy powerhouse.

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