Oxford’s JET lab smashes nuclear fusion energy output record

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  1. **Decades** away. It’ll be awesome once it’s built but it’s not worth planning for at the moment.

    The reporting on this stuff is always garbage, even worse than reporting on “ai” or new cancer treatments.

  2. And of course…

    >The UK is a participant, too. Its full involvement in ITER, however, will require first for Britain to “associate” to certain EU science programmes, something that so far has been held up by disagreements over post-Brexit trading arrangements, particularly in relation to Northern Ireland.

  3. Why don’t BP or some of the other gas and oil companies invest in this technology? Surely moving away from gas and oil (supposedly) would mean investing heavily in a technology like this would be beneficial?

  4. I’ve worked in nuclear power plants for a number of years and it still makes me laugh that the advancements in nuclear fusion and fission still come down to steam power and turbines.

    Trillions of pounds used across the world trying to solve the best way to utilise energy, and it comes down to the age old method of boiling water so you can send that energy down a line and across the country, into your home, so you can then boil more water in a kettle.

    Something sweet about it.

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