A massive nuclear fusion experiment just hit a major milestone, potentially putting us a little closer to a future of limitless clean energy.

  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    has it been a developmental dead end?

    Nope, there are several companies & universities working on it.

    W7x is the latest stellarator to come online, but there’s a new Princeton University startup called Thea doing all the complex geometry and control problems of a stellarator in software.

    It’s a neat and elegant idea, engineering-wise. And no matter whose strategy works out, we all win in terms of understanding plasma physics, and possibly unlocking the secrets of the universe.