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marginalia_nu·

Nuclear Fusion has been 20 years away for 70 years.

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Just like electric cars...

Oh, wow, now we're actually driving electric cars!

We had electric cars 130 years ago.

Exactly. Just like we have fusion for decades.

As fusion isn't practical, electric cars were not practical mass mean of transportation until very recently.

Electric cars have always been doable, they've just been more expensive than fossile fuel alternative which is ostensibly free energy. The situations are not at all comparable. Nuclear Fusion has still barely been demonstrated as a proof-of-concept.

I don't believe that is true about electric cars. Battery technology is now only good enough for a half decent range.

Nuclear fusion has been proven for decades, it's the goal of producing net-energy that is the problem.

It really makes you (not) think.

I was hopeful for a bit, then I saw some stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JurplDfPi3U and realized nothing has changed. It's the same old shit: reporters being willfully ignorant, business people misleading the public, and on and on. Wake me up when you have plans for a full-scale, fully-functional fusion plant that can actually be built in an economically feasible way. Until then, I don't care.

The headline says "close enough to start dreaming"

I don't get it. If you're not into following the tech development, only interested in the final stage, why would you even open this and bother commenting?

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