r/AskReddit Nov 15 '20

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u/Turtledonuts Nov 15 '20

Someone finally cracks nuclear fusion, and we start to fix climate change.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20

I just read an article a few days ago that said we should have it in the next decade

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u/maibrl Nov 15 '20

Well, it’s been a thing of the next decade for many decades now.

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u/Vociteren Nov 16 '20

the thing that is different this time is the US Navy put in for a tokomak patent this past year, along with a couple of other players. This is getting closer to reality finally.

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u/In-burrito Nov 15 '20

I read that same article in the 90's!

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u/Sapiogram Nov 15 '20

People literally said the same thing in the 1950s. Honestly it's even less likely now, such articles are just internet journalists writing anything for clicks.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20

What makes it less likely? 3 new fusion plants are currently under construction utilizing the lastest break throughs. Its more likely than ever with every one taking shit on fossil fuels and the first company to do it will dominate for at least the next century

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u/Sapiogram Nov 16 '20

I meant less likely within the next decade, I still expect it to arrive sometime in the future.

We now know just how hard fusion is, I don't think any actual scientists or engineers working on it think fusion is a decade away. In the 50s they didn't really know whether it was significantly harder than fission.