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We're still a very long way off. Sabine Hossenfelder has a good explanation of what's wrong with most reporting on progress toward fusion:

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/10/how-close-is-nuclea...

edit: not sure why this was downvoted, it's directly relevant and the video and transcript discuss this experiment. It quotes Arthur Turrell: "This phenomenal breakthrough brings us tantalisingly close to a demonstration of 'net energy gain’ from fusion reactions – just when the planet needs it." But this comes close to getting Qplasma to be 1, which is about a factor of 50-70 lower than getting Q to be 1 (total power into the reactor vs usable power out of the reactor).



>not sure why this was downvoted

Perhaps because spreading the agenda-oriented opinion about fusion of someone who knows exactly as much about fusion as a high-schooler maybe isn't the best?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28781178


Wow. A respected PhD theoretical physicist knows exactly as much about fusion as a high schooler? See her Wikipedia page for her resume: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Hossenfelder


If she knows more then she knowingly deceived the public in her video to forward an agenda. Which explanation is worse to you?




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