The U.S. Department of Energy announced a breakthrough in nuclear fusion on Tuesday that puts the world one step closer to harnessing an abundant energy source free from carbon emissions and long-lived radioactive waste.

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm confirmed that scientists achieved a reaction that created more energy than was used — known as a net energy gain — at the federally-funded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-an-enormous-game-changer-constellation-energy-ceo-says-152313098.html

This could potentially be the biggest scientific breakthrough in our lives. 

This makes clean energy a real possibility that may power the entire world.

 

Was listening to something about this on the news this morning. It is not as if they powered a whole city with this breakthrough, but for the first time ever they accomplished a net gain, as the article references. Yes, promising indeed.

This is the future of clean energy.  Too bad we can't just keep on keeping on while we perfect this. 

32 minutes ago, bugatti said:

Was listening to something about this on the news this morning. It is not as if they powered a whole city with this breakthrough, but for the first time ever they accomplished a net gain, as the article references. Yes, promising indeed.

Yes, this is just the first step...but it's a huge first step. The fact that there is no radioactive waste will make so many more applications possible. Powering deep space travel would be a direct benefit of this potential technology.