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When the race for fusion ground to a halt (www.technologyreview.com)
submitted 7 months ago by Johanno@feddit.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Fusion was never viable. The things that NIF puts out is a pretty, sanitized excuse for general public for nuclear weapons development (not complaining about it)

[โ€“] Johanno@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well you are correct that it never was and we still don't know if it ever will be. And even if it is tomorrow building new powerplants will take at least 30 years. Our current fossil power problem should have been solved 30 years ago!

However I still think the research is important