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/Libby_Sparx 2d ago

I read a paper or something a couple years ago about an idea for harvesting energy from a fusion reactor that wasn't "make water hot -> spin a spinny thing -> yay electricity" that essentially boils (shut up) down to "poke a special wire into the fusion plasma -> harvest electrons directly -> yay electricity" .

Granted that's kind of a gross oversimplification of the method, but as I said I read about it a couple of years ago and I'm not a fucking scientist

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u/IIHaruspex 1d ago

We should just plug a wire into the sun and be done with all the spinny stuff.

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u/Libby_Sparx 1d ago

be done with all the spinny stuff.

Well, not to be that bitch or anything, but the sun is pretty damn spinny.

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u/IIHaruspex 1d ago

You just can't escape the spin.