Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough

[Jumper_Dad]

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.

 

[bugatti]

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.

[theguru]

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

[Jumper_Dad]

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.