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Is fusion power ever going to happen? And if it does, will it live up to the hype?

>> No.8223155

>>8223142
>let's just smash shit together until it werks
Such an imprecise solution for a complicated problem

>> No.8223157

>>8223155
thats the way technology has been doing business since forever. academia usually only gets ahold of it once industry has trial and errored their way into something that "could" work.

we we're using steam engines long before the science of thermodynamics was fleshed out.

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>> No.8223176

>>8223157
Well I guess it'll work then. It seems like achievement is inevitable once the theory is understood

>> No.8223188

>>8223176
Lockheed Martin is basically giving dozens of small teams of engineers workspace to just iterate prototypes till something works.

they've gone full "million monkeys at a million typewriters" on this one.

>> No.8223344

Being that most people forget that fusion creates heat to spin a turbine , our main focus should be creating electricity without magnets . If the magnetic fields keep weakening the diminishing returns from our power plants will get ugly .

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>>8223142
Great thread for a low IQ monkey.

Yes, considering Earth is nice and warm, it's living up to the hype.

>> No.8223346

Not in our lifetime.

[maths]j[/maths]

>> No.8223418

>>8223344
Any leads on this?

>> No.8223542

Polywell already did it. They just need funding to go bigger.

>> No.8223570

We have achieved fusion decades ago. It hasn't been a scientific problem since the 70s.

The problem is getting more out than what you put in and it ultimately comes down to materials problems. Stars cheat and use gravity for confinement while we have yet to find containers that can meet the long term specs we need for a fusion reactor.

Its an engineering problem.

>> No.8223576

>>8223570
Just like a space elevator, right?

>> No.8223584

>>8223576

MCF and ICF have been dicking around since the 70s trying to push out more and more theory to eek out smaller and smaller gains when they are still clearly away from net power production.

The first order problem is still all the equipment and fields you need to keep the plasma from torching its container and the neutron dose severely limits the longevity of these systems. And there is no easy solution for either of these. Ignition is actually the "easy" part.

>> No.8223620

It'll probably happen one day. It'll be expensive as fuck to build though.

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