World’s biggest nuclear fusion reactor opens in hunt for ‘holy grail’ of clean energy
www.independent.co.uk
Harnessing the power of the sun offers near limitless clean energy

The scientists used lasers to fuse two light atoms into a single one, releasing 3.15MJ (megajoules) of energy from 2.05MJ of input – roughly enough to boil a kettle.

Why do we even study this? Renewables are the only way. This is a waste of money which is a finite resource.

    • CTDummy@lemm.ee
      241·
      2 years ago

      In the way the other poster compared them? Yes, in so far as people who complain “the new, developing technology isn’t immediately as optimised and refined as I want it to be” for both.

        • CTDummy@lemm.ee
          251·
          2 years ago

          Seeing as you deliberately seem to be missing the point in order to try and feel smarter I’m going to leave you to it. Have a good one.

        • lntl@lemmy.mlOP
          36·
          2 years ago

          i think a central barrier at the moment is fusion doesn’t readily start a chain reaction like fission can. scientists are likely exploring the use of the yield of the fusion reaction to reload the reactor (kind of like an automatic firearm) and these techniques are far from mature in this setting.

          PV is a simpler mechanism in every way and we’ve been studying it for more than 100 years. They’re very different both technologically and maturity-wise

          • DerGottesknecht@feddit.de
            51·
            2 years ago

            The sun is a fusion reactor which is sustaining a reaction for millions of years already. Iter is a concept which tries to emulate this

    • neuropean@kbin.social
      72·
      2 years ago

      Fusion is constant, wouldn’t require large amounts of batteries to store energy. There are advantages to each.