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EspiritdescaliMA to FuturologyEnglish · 1 year ago

Scientists achieve major breakthrough in the quest for limitless energy: 'It's setting a world record'

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Scientists achieve major breakthrough in the quest for limitless energy: 'It's setting a world record'

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EspiritdescaliMA to FuturologyEnglish · 1 year ago
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"It's a giant leap forward for a concept that promises economically viable, zero-carbon heat and electricity."
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    Holy lazy journalism. That’s a picture of a completely different reactor.

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      Ha, yeah, you’re right. Looks to be a stock image of a tokomak render. The original report by Interesting Engineering has a photo of the actual device:

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        I need a banana for scale. I think it’s slightly taller than a story?

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          See the red and white dashed line? That’s the width of a 6 lane freeway.

          Edit: joke clearly unappreciated, here is a photo with people standing next to it: https://arpa-e.energy.gov/news-and-media/blog-posts/arpa-e-investor-update-vol-17-realta-fusion-magnetic-mirror

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            I appreciate your dad joke.

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