'Artificial sun' sets record for time at 100 million degrees in latest advance for nuclear fusion

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23. Sustaining fusion in an accelerated plasma stream

for more than milliseconds is pretty remarkable, I'll grant you, but it's still not harvestable energy. That 20 million degrees, or whatever it was, looks impressive until you realize how tiny it was, it's like trying to warm your hands on a candle flame in the next room.

They're getting closer all the time, but I've given up on seeing Mr. Fusion in my lifetime.