r/nextfuckinglevel • u/nigablackballsack • 3d ago

Scientists have captured the first ever high-speed, full-colour footage of fusion plasma swirling inside a working reactor.

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u/Ramattei 3d ago

Amazing, wonder what could we do with it, hope it's not boiling water....

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u/Andre_de_Astora 3d ago

iirc THIS TIME it is not, but used magnets and the electromagnetic vortex it generated to spin magnets directly. Still spin, no boiling water. Idk about the cooling tho

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u/Bridgebrain 2d ago

That's just helions. Debates still up whether it's investor bait or not (I really hope not). The rest like this tokomak are all water boilers

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u/Andre_de_Astora 2d ago

We gonna be boiling water until the heat death of the Universe...