Net gain nuclear fusion is now a real thing

[Long Duck Dong]

All these articles on net gain nuclear fusion ever since I was a kid and it seemed like we'd never get there until I was old or dead. Well here we are finally. Still a long way to go to be commercially viable obviously but the milestone has been past at last.



U.S. Department of Energy
@ENERGY

BREAKING NEWS: This is an announcement that has been decades in the making.

On December 5, 2022 a team from DOE's
@Livermore_Lab
made history by achieving fusion ignition.

This breakthrough will change the future of clean power and America’s national defense forever.


https://mobile.twitter.com/ENERGY?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctw gr%5Eauthor

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/nuclear-fusion-reaction-us-announcement-12-13-22/index.html

[Yeezy]

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[Long Duck Dong]

Coincidentally the US, a couple of days ago, just sent a capsule to the moon and back. The capsule was capable of holding astronauts. And a manned mission is planned for 2024.

Tritium is pretty rare on Earth although it can be synthetically manufactured very expensively. Tritium is required at this time for nuclear fusion. It can be replaced with Helium 3(from what I understand) and is much more efficient than tritium. But is even harder to manufacture. However there's supposed to be lots of it on the moon, which is why China and ourselves may be racing to the moon to start obtaining it.

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Coincidentally the US, a couple of days ago, just sent a capsule to the moon and back. The capsule was capable of holding astronauts. And a manned mission is planned for 2024.

Tritium is pretty rare on Earth although it can be synthetically manufactured very expensively. Tritium is required at this time for nuclear fusion. It can be replaced with Helium 3(from what I understand) and is much more efficient than tritium. But is even harder to manufacture. However there's supposed to be lots of it on the moon, which is why China and ourselves may be racing to the moon to start obtaining it.

Yup, helium-3 is abundant on the moon but would require a moon base to mine. That's the costly part. It would require a lot more money than nasa has to work with. That is why I think China is going to get it up first because they have no true private sector. Government owns, runs and funds their entire space program so they can use state resources & assets to fund it.

Unless if nasa, European space agency and private sector could get together and work on a moon base together. It won't happen though because they would just be stepping on each other's toes for credit/money/politics. Just disappointing.

[Im Still Ballin]

We're still a ways off. The reaction had a positive net gain of energy, but that's not counting the energy used to run the laser. The wall-plug efficiency was only 0.5 -- not a true net gain.

Still, it's a start.