boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoHelium-3: Mining the fuel of the future on the Moonenglish.elpais.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1168arrow-down18
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minus-squareHalcyonlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 months agoITER will not be having the first full fusion before 2040. And that’s just a prototype for science, it will not be a fusion power plant for generating energy for the public grid. So: fusion is still not very near.
minus-squareIchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoI wish this canard that fusion is right around the corner would die, we’re nowhere near. Where are people like OP getting their information from?
ITER will not be having the first full fusion before 2040. And that’s just a prototype for science, it will not be a fusion power plant for generating energy for the public grid. So: fusion is still not very near.
I wish this canard that fusion is right around the corner would die, we’re nowhere near. Where are people like OP getting their information from?