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Fusion: let’s make a tiny star and hold it in place with magnets.

So dang cool.

The more I read about fusion, the less I think it's anything near to a star. The kind of fusion is completely different. A sun wouldn't work on earth because it doesn't produce enough energy per square meter. It isn't even in de same ballpark. The only reason why our sun produces so much energy is because it's so incomprehensibly large. A compost heap produces more heat per square meter than the sun.

Fusion reactors are incredibly cool. But they're not "harnessing the power of a sun".

> "harnessing the power of a sun".

isn't that solar?

That's why fusion is so cool. We're making something that runs a higher temperature than the sun's core. It's not even strong enough for us! We can't rely on that super slow quantum tunneling fusion; we're gonna make stronger yet thinner stars at home and literally suspend it in extremely limited space.

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