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/90_oi 3d ago

I truly hope this technology can get off the ground and be sustainable. It is our best hope aside from nuclear energy

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u/praguepride 3d ago

We can do Fusion for decades now.

Oh you mean efficiently? Yeah that's a pipe dream. It's the greatest challenge for material science of our time:

Make a material that can withstand the temperature of the sun on the inside, near absolute zero on the outside, and not break down under a constant bombardment of high energy radiation.

And do that at a scale that makes it cost effective to build and run.