Nuclear-Fusion-Breakthrough

independent.co.uk

2 pointsalbird5 comments

Commercialisation of the power source still remains a long way off, though several major breakthroughs in recent years have given hope that it will be attainable within the next decade.

Nuclear fusion power has been '15-20 years away' for 70 years now, ever since artificial nuclear fusion itself was invented in the 1950s. I venture to say that it will still be '15-20 years away' in 50 years time.

You gotta get with the times, man. Helion and zap and first light and so on are one year away and have been for the last decade or so. Startups are disrupting fusion.

Please excuse my scepticism. I'll believe it when the first continuous fusion gets over 6 hours.

Seems I needed an /s. The joke was that the marketing had changed from the traditional industry model of vapourware to the theranos model of vapourware.

<grin>

The hype that's around now is (almost) identical to your snark. I'm sorry I didn't catch the invisible /s.

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