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it was one of the most important breakthroughs to date in fusion

What ? It was not really. Here's a physicist discussing why.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/08/fusion-foolery/

In the end, the NIF fusion accomplishment might be called a stunt. Stunts explore what we can do (often after an insane amount of preparation, practice, and failure), rather than what’s practical. Stunts hide the pains and present an appearance of ease and grace, but it’s a show.

The “more energy out than laser energy in” equation masks several fundamental problems. NIF’s doped glass lasers have an efficiency of about 0.5 percent, meaning that they would have sucked in roughly 400 megajoules of energy from the grid in order to produce the 2.1 megajoules of light energy…

To be fair the hype machine was from the press not the scientists

Let’s pause to say: well done! Honestly. No sarcasm. What they did was ridiculously hard, and it finally worked after more than a decade of trying. They actually produced a significant number of fusion events! There’s no faking that, and I’d like to see you try. So let’s be clear that I’m not knocking the accomplishment in itself. My major beef is how we interpret the implications for society.

These comment sections can be a place of puerility and defeatism. Thanks for being the difference.

While we maybe researching and contributing into Fusion we are not at all looking into making use for the energy grid. At most just if it can be used for the Data Centers

(Which is yes we could but I think providing free energy for homes is a better use you ask me.)

Thanks for your positive and refreshing comment ❤️

I'm assuming the sole reason the Orange cunt hasn't destroyed the US's fusion research is because he wants to give exclusive rights to build and use it to ~~Vault-Tech~~ the tech broligarchs who bribe him.

It's still decades to never from being practical.