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aaaaaaaaaab
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Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees
What... no. Igniting fusion is easy. Keeping the plasma confined is the hard part due to its immense heat.
Cthulhu_
on Nov 14, 2018
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Easy or relatively easy? They still need to pump in enough energy to get it up to a 10 million degree (if not more) temperature.
aaaaaaaaaab
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Fusion can be made in your living room:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
FrankyHollywood
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Great design. I have a friend who took it a bit further, and build the Fusor with Lego bricks. Never since any worries about energy bills, he went completely off the grid!
de_watcher
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Wait, I have to reconfigure my bitcoin mining rigs to gold mining.
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