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I love the smell of Fusion Power in the morning! What’s that Scotty?! Yes it does not need dilithium crystals! Tesla we can rebuild your towers now. Haha! Well well Anons, guess what just happened this morning? Houston We Have Stable Fusion Ignition. Stable! Boooooom!
https://www.cnet.com/science/fusion-energy-breakthrough-major-milestone-achieved-in-us-experiment/
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-scientists-fusion-energy-breakthrough.html
eh, fossil fuels, coal, and nuclear are proven technologies with existing infrastructure. we have no idea if fusion will actually prove to be superior, safer, efficient etc. i'd rather stick with what we have rather than just dogpiling on an unproven vacc... i mean technology. It would be terrible if we killed all the existing jobs and infrastructure to find out too late that fusion just doesn't work.
Yes nuclear is a proven technology...and fusion is nuclear energy...a much better form of nuclear energy
nuclear and fusion may be similar, but the only nuclear has an actual industry, infrastructure, and workers, and has been proven to work. i'm not saying fusion is automatically bad, but we can't just blindly trust it when it hasn't proven itself to be "much better" yet. it may be, but we must be cautious.
fusion is nuclear. We currently use fission. They have been seeking a breakthrough on fusion because once you are able to get it to work (which they finally have small scale) its not only more efficient, it eliminates the possibility of a meltdown
Fission works just fine, with a century of safe experience. Fusion is nowhere. It is not "more efficient." It wastes most of its reaction energy in the production of 14 MeV neutrons, which transmute the first wall structure into long-term radioactive waste,. Advanced fission reactors preclude the possibility of a meltdown (and even old ones like the CANDU reactor), If the news you are thinking about pertains to the ITER reactor, there is a considerable scandal about that being oversold.
Why are we working on fusion reactions? It is a convenient way for the Department of Energy to research fusion reactions, to better understand how to design bombs. Fusion power has been "30 years away" for the past 50 years.
That's why we develop them. Every technology today is an iteration on old technology. There is no reason to stifle technological advancement because "it's unproven".