Fusion Breakthrough
If these results stand up to scientific scrutiny, it's huge:For the first time ever, US scientists at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a source familiar with the project confirmed to CNN.
The article is here: US scientists reach long-awaited nuclear fusion breakthrough, source says.
Scientists have worked on nuclear fusion for almost eighty years now, and even though this is obviously a very small-scale result, the implications are staggering. Nuclear fusion could entirely change our planet in so many ways. In combination with solar/wind and other clean energy sources, environmental pollution from power generation would plummet.
It's one of those "better future" moments we might not all live to see, but Eli 21.4 and your children will.
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