I know the joke “It is always 50 years away”. I just was wondering if the body of work since 90s which is what the popular level of scientific knowledge is at, including mine – did that notion change? Is fusion technically “all good in paper” and it is an issue of reaching right material technology to harness it, or is it a more complicated complication?
P.S. I know Fusion is real, because stars. I am asking if it is possible on paper in the form factor of a generator.
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Fusion isn’t just real “in the sun”. We can do fusion reactions already here on earth with technology.
The tricky bit is that it takes more energy to make the fusion occur (safely) than we can harvest from the reaction.
So.. making it a power positive generator is being worked on, making fusion happen is possible to do in your garage (with a few thousand bucks of parts and some knowledge of electronics and vacuum systems)
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