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Can German engineering solve the challenges of fusion? (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[–] Sir_Osis_of_Liver@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

"Why use 1 part when 6 will be more interesting." Those engineers? I'm not saying they can't, but I wouldn't be putting money on it.

Right now we can't do fission economically despite 70 years of trying, and it's basically using hot sticks to boil water. Suspending plasma in a magnetic field to somehow boil water is a whole other level of complexity.