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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


US scientists have achieved net energy gain in a nuclear fusion reaction for the second time since a historic breakthrough in December last year in the quest to find a near-limitless, safe and clean source of energy

Scientists at the California-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory repeated the breakthrough in an experiment in the National Ignition Facility (NIF) on 30 July that produced a higher energy yield than in December, a Lawrence Livermore spokesperson said.

The approach, which gives rise to the heat and light of the sun and other stars, has been hailed as having huge potential as a sustainable, low-carbon energy source.

In December, Lawrence Livermore first achieved a net energy gain in a fusion experiment using lasers.

The Energy Department called it “a major scientific breakthrough decades in the making that will pave the way for advancements in national defense and the future of clean power.”

Fusion energy raises the prospect of plentiful clean power: the reactions release no greenhouse gases or radioactive waste byproducts.


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[–] WidowsFavoriteSon -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This "breakthrough" happens every 7.3 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Tru enough. Progress is progress though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean it doesn't help when you constantly have to start over because people are so pants shittingly afraid of nuclear energy that the funding keeps getting pulled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also true. That frustrates me as well.