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Read more: http://fusionforenergy.europa.eu/iter/
TIL in southern France, 35 nations are collaborating to build the world’s largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy based on the same principle that powers our Sun and stars.
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This makes me so happy inside
Holy shit, can’t wait to see it in action. Should change the world
From Wikipedia:
*ITER will not produce enough heat to produce net electricity and therefore is not equipped with turbines to generate electricity. Instead, the heat produced by the fusion reactions will be vented. The DEMO-class reactors that follow ITER are intended to demonstrate the net production of electricity.*
Looks like we’re still a ways off, but hopefully there is success with this.
Short story prompt: world suddenly accesses abundant, clean, easy energy, useable for any and all applications. Discuss.