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hunter

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11. I'll leave you with a happy thought:

Mon Dec 12, 2022, 03:56 PM

Dec 2022

It's possible these difficulties with fusion power prevent us from building cheap and largely fallout-free fusion bombs.

Humanity might no longer exist if just anyone could build a fusion bomb using little more than conventional explosives and magnets.

It's a fortunate thing that it takes a very difficult-to-build fission bomb to set off a hydrogen bomb. Maybe the universe did us a favor by making fusion so difficult.

We do know that commercial fission power plants work, and we know how to do it safely. Nuclear power is a well established seventy year old technology.

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Financial Times: US scientists boost clean power hopes with fusion energy breakthrough [View all] femmedem Dec 2022 OP

I can't help but to think back to my time in elementary school, when they told us that with Chainfire Dec 2022 #1

I'm reading that there will be a press conference on Tuesday. femmedem Dec 2022 #2

I am a scientist. Don't expect much. n/t. NNadir Dec 2022 #3

Thanks for chiming in. I was hoping you would. femmedem Dec 2022 #4

Eh a breakthrough has to happen eventually qazplm135 Dec 2022 #5

That's not true. hunter Dec 2022 #6

I see no reason that's true qazplm135 Dec 2022 #7

Nearly everyone is doing the later, so it's no "straw man." hunter Dec 2022 #9

So now you think qazplm135 Dec 2022 #10

I'll leave you with a happy thought: hunter Dec 2022 #11

I'll be delighted to rejoice when the process can produce MW outputs for weeks or months . . . hatrack Dec 2022 #8