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Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scientists
The dream of nuclear fusion is on the brink of being realised, according to a major new US initiative that says it will put fusion power on the grid within 15 years. The project, a collaboration between scientists at MIT and a private company, will take a radically different approach to other efforts to transform fusion from an expensive science experiment into a viable commercial energy source. The team intend to use a new class of high-temperature superconductors they predict will allow them to create the world’s first fusion reactor that produces more energy than needs to be put in to get the fusion reaction going.
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Hilarious. Fusion power is fifteen years away. Fusion power is always fifteen years away.
It's been at least ten years away ever since the 1950s. It seems to be getting further away very slowly.
On the other hand I get half of my power from a fusion reactor right now.
The glowing one that chases the Moon across the sky?
That's the one. We're a good safe distance to be from a nuclear reactor too: 146 million km.