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Your comment is itself misleading ironically since the whole point is to have a self sustaining fusion reaction. The lasers are only needed to start the reaction. Meanwhile, you’re making it sound as if sustained laser output is needed.
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The energy cost for sustained plasma is reduced dramatically now that room temperature superconductors are now possible. This was basically the main limiting factor for positive energy output.
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While science reporting is always done in sensational manner, it’s still an interesting development that’s getting us a step closer to producing a net positive output. You’re complaining as if I wrote the headline, you should take that up with the journalist instead.
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Fair enough, updated the headline to note that net total positive was not achieved. :)
This makes me think of this video from Sabine Hossenfelder.
It doesnt matter if you really believe in science!
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If fusion can be made to work that would open path towards effectively unlimited clean energy in the future. I don’t know how much that will help with climate change in the near term though since we have a fairly short window of around a decade, and it’s highly unlikely fusion could be made to work at scale in that time frame. So, we definitely can’t keep polluting as normal.
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That’s how most people in the west expected things to play out. Turns out that it’s not just poor countries that are getting hit by climate disasters though. However, the fact that we do need to deal with climate change does not detract from the value of having limitless clean energy that fusion can offer.
Your argument that developing this technology is somehow a negative because people will keep polluting is utter nonsense It’s pretty clear that we’re going to keep polluting regardless unless drastic societal changes happen. The reason we can’t stop polluting is because our society is based around consumerism and our economy is based on growth. Until capitalism is abolished this problem cannot be solved. Technology has absolutely nothing to do with this.
We have all the tech we need already. This is not a technical problem that needs to be solved. And fusion won’t be here in the meaningful time frame anyway. It could solve the perception problem of nuclear power or it could share its fate… since it is still a (thermo)nuclear technology.
