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ledow t1_irwej6s wrote

"Lots of" is a complete lie, and pretending you can harvest that is hyperbole to say the least.

And you can't just harvest the "fraction of a second" and claim profit when it takes orders of magnitude more energy to make that fraction of a second happen.

https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-a-fusion-reaction-has-generated-more-energy-than-absorbed-by-the-fuel

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Taoistandroid t1_irwhqps wrote

Lol I was going to say, this is like thinking that cranking your car is a net positive.

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