The US National Ignition Facility has achieved even higher energy yields since breaking even for the first time in 2022, but a practical fusion reactor is still a long way off
Of course. Upon reflection though, I will update what I said: Containment was mostly science fiction but now it is mostly fiction. Why you might ask. I’ll tell you, we wouldn’t be alive if the power of nuclear fusion did not leak out of stars as slowly as that leak maybe it is still there. It is nothing short of hubris to expect that one can achieve more than what nature did in 14 billion years.
You do understand ‘lifetime of man’ is the larger of those time frames, right?
Of course. Upon reflection though, I will update what I said: Containment was mostly science fiction but now it is mostly fiction. Why you might ask. I’ll tell you, we wouldn’t be alive if the power of nuclear fusion did not leak out of stars as slowly as that leak maybe it is still there. It is nothing short of hubris to expect that one can achieve more than what nature did in 14 billion years.
And that may not necessarily be so the way things are going.