48 seconds. I predict a glut of helium. balloons for everyone

  • zaphod@sopuli.xyz
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    7 months ago

    It’s not limitless, you still need fuel. Especially tritium doesn’t really occur naturally because of its extremely short half-life, current plans for ITER involve breeding tritium from lithium in the fusion reactor. The closest to limitless power we have is PV.

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      7 months ago

      A reactor that produces enough of its own fuel… It’s starting to sound like a perpetual motion machine.