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Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds
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Hot damn! Limitless fusion power is only thirty years away!
It's not limitless, you still need fuel. Especially tritium doesn't really occur naturally because of its extremely short half-life, current plans for ITER involve breeding tritium from lithium in the fusion reactor. The closest to limitless power we have is PV.
A reactor that produces enough of its own fuel.... It's starting to sound like a perpetual motion machine.
Read again, there are plans to use lithium instead of tritium, still limited.