#fusion research

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China's 'Artificial Sun' Achieves Fusion Breakthrough by Shattering a Key Physical Limit

For decades, humanity has chased a monumental dream: to build a star on Earth. The goal is to harness the same process that powers our sun, nuclear fusion, a source of virtually limitless clean energy. At the heart of this quest are incredible machines called tokamaks, which use powerful magnetic fields to contain plasma heated to temperatures exceeding 150 million kelvin, far hotter than the…

China's 'Artificial Sun' Achieves Fusion Breakthrough by Shattering a Key Physical Limit

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69 Megajoules: JET Sets Fusion Energy World Record

The Joint European Torus (JET), one of the world’s largest and most powerful fusion machines, has proven its capability to consistently prod

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"The reason we don't have fusion already is because we, as a civilization, never decided that it was a priority. Fusion funding is literally peanuts: In 2016, the US spent twice as much on peanut subsidies as on fusion research."

[techscavenger]

If you've been asking yourself that question, I heartily recommend this article from Mark Gibbs at Forbes. For years now, admitting you are a cold fusion researcher has been analogous to admitting you study unicorns in the wild. 

I'm not versed enough to say whether or not that view is fair, but Gibbs spends some time going over the status of various Cold Fusion research organizations.

In a nutshell, cold fusion still seems to be stuck in the all fluff, little substance phase.  Though a number of organizations seem close to making demonstrations, nobody seems to be producing anything tangible yet.