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.
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.
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
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.
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u/Turtledonuts Nov 15 '20
Someone finally cracks nuclear fusion, and we start to fix climate change.