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World’s biggest nuclear fusion reactor comes online (www.independent.co.uk)
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The scientists used lasers to fuse two light atoms into a single one, releasing 3.15MJ (megajoules) of energy from 2.05MJ of input – roughly enough to boil a kettle.

Why do we even study this? Renewables are the only way. This is a waste of money which is a finite resource.

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[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

The comment by op kind of feels weird...

But. More options are always good, and this provides more options, with the added benefit of creating helium (which is a limited resource, and gets mainly harvested when mining fossil fuels at the moment).

So this actually helps solve more than 1 problem, if they can get it to work

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 14 points 11 months ago

I downvotes solely for OP's comment. Nuclear energy has its place, if magically we had enough solar and wind farms constructed and even the grid built that connects the whole world, all of it magically just appearing. We will still not be able to retire fossil fuel power generation immidiately because we don't have a storage technology that scales well enough atm and renewable can't cover baseload as they can't generate 24x7 output.

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml -2 points 11 months ago

this lemmy gets it