World’s biggest nuclear fusion reactor comes online (www.independent.co.uk)

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The scientists used lasers to fuse two light atoms into a single one, releasing 3.15MJ (megajoules) of energy from 2.05MJ of input – roughly enough to boil a kettle.

Why do we even study this? Renewables are the only way. This is a waste of money which is a finite resource.

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[-] 4am@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

So we should just give up? No.

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago

We can carry on throwing money at it, I'm fine with that. Thinking that fusion is going to save us is dangerous though. We need to be taking action now to get us off fossil fuels and the most cost-effective way to do that is renewables + storage.

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