First Light (Oxford University spinout) achieves nuclear fusion
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First Light (Oxford University spinout) achieves nuclear fusion
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#2Re: First Light (Oxford University spinout) achieves nuclear fusion
#3It's remarkable and humorous how it's just a gun. Like this is how the Victorians would have approached fusion.
More power to them! We need to test a myriad of approaches. This could well turn out to be the best one.
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#4Isn't this a bomb in a vacuum chamber?
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#5> First Light is working towards a pilot plant producing ~150 MW of electricity and costing less than $1 billion in the 2030s.
Finally, fusion in only ten to twenty years. I've been waiting ten to twenty years for this!
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#6As a nuclear fusion ignorant, where is the small print here? What's the catch, drawback, issue that it will make actually nonviable ?
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#7It's remarkable and humorous how it's just a gun. Like this is how the Victorians would have approached fusion. More power to them! We need to test a myriad of approaches. This could well turn out to be the best one.
I’m amazed the British did this first instead of Americans
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#8Isn't this a bomb in a vacuum chamber?
In the sense that an internal combustion consists primarily of a series of bombs in tubes, sure. I don't think that this is a very useful analysis, though.
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#9You too can achieve nuclear fusion!
https://makezine.com/projects/nuclear-fusor/
And just like everyone else, you'll suck up a lot more energy than you'll produce
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#10https://www.reddit.com/r/fusion/comments/twrwqj/uk_startup_c...