Powering up Virginia: World's first grid-scale commercial fusion power plant

[@stepmback]

Building something that does not exist. That is a new one.

[@willrsan]

nah, its a very old scam, vaporware

[@TheKrizizzy]

Republicans love magic.

[@kaseyc5078]

@@TheKrizizzy like the EV chargers that Biden promised to build 😂😂😂😂.

[@kaseyc5078]

Kinda like Obama did with Solyndra

[@hoonhwang4778]

No, It's fabulously bigly. Honestly.😊

[@aaa1820-g4g]

do they even have a working experiment even, not even prototype

[@michaelhill6451]

No. They don't. No fusion reactor or experiment has ever generated more energy than it consumed. Even the inertial confinement fusion experiment at LLNL that was hailed as "net positive" was only "net positive" in terms of the energy on target vs the energy released. When you account for all the losses generating the laser light on target, it used something like 100 times more energy than in released.

[@thesink5723]

​@@michaelhill6451 sounds like it should cost a lot less !! Being totally sarcastic !!!

[@michaelhill6451]

@@thesink5723 Yeah, it cost like $3.4 Billion and release ~ 0.5 kWh of energy. That said, it was actually for helping to design nuclear weapons, so they accomplished their goal.

[@lostmic]

​@michaelhill6451 That's not quite accurate. A lab in California actually cracked it and got the first low input and high output of energy. Here is the title of the news article "DOE Confirms Fusion Energy Milestone at California Lab". Sustaining it what's their next goal... This was in 2022.

[@michaelhill6451]

@@lostmic Actually it is quite accurate. It is only "net positive" if you only consider the laser energy delivered onto the fusion target vs the energy released by the fusion reaction. Generating that laser energy and delivering it to the target consumed about 100 times more energy than was released in the fusion reaction you're talking about. In other words, for every 100 Wh you put into the experiment you get 1 Wh out. That's not exactly what most people think of when they hear "net positive". If you don't believe me, watch the DOE's press conference about the reaction you're talking about.

[@prgmr5057]

They have been promising this for the last 50 years. We are always 20 years away.

[@GhostShip94]

They likely already have it in a classified capacity. The theory works, and there are patents licensed by Boeing. It's true that a patent doesn't require a working prototype, but an initial search on cold fusion patents states that they don't accept patent requests on the subject because it doesn't work. Very interesting that Boeing has one then, eh?

[@brucefrykman8295]

We are reaching "the tipping point" The point the Federal Government reaches when it has to borrow our money (at force) to in order to pay only the interest on their 'credit cards' (our pockets)

[@raoultesla2292]

LookUp --tokamak fusion ITER-- you can do this in your backyard.

[@brucefrykman8295]

@@raoultesla2292 If such a scheme were ever to become workable government taxpayer funding would not be part of it. This like “green energy” or solving the “climate crisis” are all anti-science. As every school child should know when anti-science meets science both are annihilated leaving only a black hole in taxpayers pockets. A business trip took me to the university of Rochester in New York some 50 years ago I there visited the laser galleries that produced nuclear fusion, they thought. This was to produce, unlimited, clean energy and a breakthrough was right around the corner. More money was needed from the taxpayers to make it all come true. Yes Virginia Santa Claus is real.

[@brucefrykman8295]

@@raoultesla2292 Ahhh Backyard Fusion is right around the corner; we can get 'er done as soon as government scientists conquer death - also right around the corner - keep those big spenders in Washington, we would only squander our own money on food shelter and health.

[@mstreich]

How many billions is the governor wasting on this project?

[@noahborthwick3231]

Not much, cfs is a private company, so the vast majority of the project funding is coming from private venture capital looking to make money

[@canyonh9]

He doesn't care as long as our money gets him re elected.

[@yougonnaeatthat9889]

​@@noahborthwick3231article I read outlined state infusion of cash and no taxes. Yep all venture capital 😂

[@matthewwolfe5222]

​@@noahborthwick3231guarantee they're getting government subsidies, and tax incentives to do this. Private companies live on subsidies and tax breaks

[@WokeandProud]

​@@noahborthwick3231Lol private companies get lots of money from the governments all the time, not saying tgis is fake but that's a bad argument.

[@Dave09182010]

arrest this guy right now. and fire this anchor and this governor.

[@stephenmorton8017]

What a load of insightful questions, eh? I was thinking the same thing. That guy should be arrested before he escapes in his electric car.

[@FamilyManMoving]

PT Barnum would be proud!

[@steve25782]

Unlike you, Barnum was smart enough to recognize real engineers with real ideas and real plans. :-)

[@valderith]

guy looks like a scam artist

[@frankcoffey]

Yeah the smile while you talk thing gives it away.

[@thesink5723]

Looks like he slept on a park bench ??

[@frankcoffey]

@@thesink5723 The way you get off the bench is to scam a bunch of folks. 😏

[@raoultesla2292]

LookUp --tokamak fusion ITER-- you can do this in your backyard.

[@steve25782]

Looks like you're a fool. :-(

[@benjaminhon86]

Sounds like bs, money laundering?

[@willrsan]

pumping the stock price

[@planner37]

Inflation reduction.

[@tigerstallion]

@@planner37 inflation creation

[@steve25782]

CFS has already done everything that they're planning to do, just not with the new high-field superconductors that make smaller/cheaper tokamaks and burning plasmas possible. :-)

[@steve25782]

There are BS claims about fusion out there, and they might be being used for money laundering, but CFS isn't making these claims. Don't throw the good stuff out with the garbage. :-)

[@wsteele5864]

I think both these men have really gotten their hands around the most important element for being able to con people literally forever, that element is optimism. Keep spouting optimism, even in the face of cold hard scientific reality and you will keep your gig forever. Come to think of it, they couldn't have come to a better place to discuss these technically infeasible ideas, CNBC.

[@TomPatel]

Like Elon Musk says sun is largest fusion sources so why to waste billions of dollars when sun is free.

[@brucefrykman8295]

@@TomPatel Yes the sun is totally free but then so is coal, gas, and petroleum. Nature doesn’t charge us a penny for any of these wonderful commodities she has provided us with. Fire, which is also totally free and doesn’t cost a penny. Is a wonderful thing. You can heat your home with it. You can use it to make coffee or tea and even cooked your meals with it; isn’t it wonderful.

[@cliveapps7105]

I know someone who calls it Hopium

[@brucefrykman8295]

@@cliveapps7105 "Green power" (the color of the graft); The Hopiate of the the ignorant masses. I'm an atheist of the green religion.

[@hardheadjarhead]

Fusion energy hasn’t been attained to any degree. This is horse dookey. But by all means trust a guy who can’t shave or put on a suit prior to going on air.

[@krg038]

I bet Manchin and his coal workers are excited about this

[@steve25782]

They shouldn't be. Fusion will eventually put coal out of business unless the coal companies find customers with something better to do with their product than burn it. :-)

[@Damianwindmill]

@@steve25782 Coal will never go out of business due to the steel and cement industries. We use fossil fuels in general for other purposes than energy. What we can do is lessen our reliance on them. Nuclear is already a solution as more miners can move to nuclear to mine uranium and thorium so we can have efficient clean energy. When fusion comes out, (which will be like the next 50 years like they always say) we either need to mine lithium (for tritium) or go to the moon and mine Helium 3 (preferable by the time fusion comes out).

[@docwatson1134]

"Come on board in the early 2030's", maybe late 2030's, maybe late 2050's. Long after solar, wind, and battery storage has completely solved all of our electricity supply needs.

[@billsimpson604]

You forgot geothermal and hydrogen drilling.

[@dclanon]

Did he just say that fusion is the opposite of nuclear power?!? What BS! Of course fusion power is nuclear power. Yes, you can say that fusion is the opposite of fission. He didn't say fission, he said "nuclear".

[@bigbubba4314]

Fusion is the combination of light atoms into heavier atoms/molecules. That is what this guy is selling. Nuclear power is fission, the splitting of heavy atoms into lighter ones. So, from a lay perspective, they can be described as opposites.

[@SukunaSentMe]

Joe should retire; he can barely read the teleprompter

[@lbowsk]

He's painful to watch and unbearable to listen to. Nothing but Dog Whistles and vacuous bullet points. That's it. And they pay him in excess of 20M per YEAR. Vomit. I never watch him.

[@2olvets443]

Prototype means untested. So this is the definition of cart before the horse 😂

[@zettaiengineer4202]

World's first grid scale commercial -fusion- fictional power plant. Meanwhile free energy from the fusion reactor in the sky is dismissed in the name of solar panel tariffs and protecting fossil energy incumbents.

[@hmr200subs]

And nuclear fission power is overlooked as well.

[@canyonh9]

Solar energy works about 8 hours a day at best - so you'll be fine with no electricity 16 pluss hours a day. Stop snorting the unicorn farts.

[@mrbaab5932]

There are domestic solar power systems providers.

[@josephcernansky1794]

yes...BILLIONS of natural acres of land covered with WASTEFUL...USELESS solar panel famrs....DON'T work at night...DON'T work under heavy cloud cover and NOT at all when covered with snow!!.....A TOTAL ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER!!!!....future generations will HATE ALL these FAKE "man-made" climate change from CO2!

[@beyondfossil]

@@canyonh9 Our sun provides us 173,000-terawatts of power non-stop or 1000W square meter peak on the ground, and it's always peak somewhere on Earth. That amount of power can provide all 620-exajoules of energy the world uses in a year in just 1 hour. Or just 1/10000th of that spread over a course of a year. Significantly less than 1-percent of all the world's land surface can power all the world's grids. That doesn't even include wind power.

[@michaelhill6451]

Building a "grid scale" power plant based on technology that has never generated more energy than it consumed, even in an experiment. That ought to be a great investment.

[@TheDeacon-z9m]

Your info is out-of-date. This team has achieved it and is scaling up the tech.

[@Mark-qi2jw]

@@TheDeacon-z9m where? when? how much? where are the solid, verifiable data?

[@michaelhill6451]

@@TheDeacon-z9m Wrong. All I have to do is look at their Wikipedia to see that they have never achieved Q > 1. Also, if they had, this would have been an absolutely huge news story and the key designers on the project probably would all be receiving Nobel Prizes. It literally would be the biggest thing since the discovery of fire.

[@Spinozawasright]

Do not be fooled by Q= .1. It only means that the generated fusion power (possibly for a fraction of a second) is equal to the input power INTO the plasma. The big issue is that a huge amount of power is needed to produce that input power! So, even if fusion advocates would claim to have reached Q=1, in fact they would have used 100s times more energy. It is just one of the many tricks fusion scientists use to fool public and decision makers.

[@TheDeacon-z9m]

@@michaelhill6451I believe net-positive energy has been achieved at lab-scale. I recall reading about this just a few years ago. This will be commercial-scale, and both company documents and the wiki claim it will be net-positive (in 2027). The funding for this plant is very large. I can’t believe the investors would be providing the money if the company’s claims had not passed their due-diligence checks. Investors will only be able to make money if the plant is net-positive energy.

[@zr2ee1]

I didn't know Elizabeth Holmes had a brother

[@Bay0Wulf]

Theres a good bit of “If” about this. That doesn’t mean that its not time that We get started trying.

[@jessemaxwell8815]

Please, Sabine Hossenfelder, give us your thoughts on this incredibly bold, unbelievable plan. As in I *literally* don’t believe this conversation is even happening 😂 At this point, it’s not much more credible than cold fusion.

[@steve25782]

You just showed your ignorance, and hers too. Fusion has made massive advances over the last 50 years, and a fusion experiment(Alcator C Mod at M.I.T.) would have produced power-plant level power if its powerful magnets hadn't consumed so much power. Now CFS has newly available high-field superconducting magnets that give powerful magnets with almost zero power consumption. At this point, a working fusion power plant is practically a slam dunk, except for the grim engineering reality that everything costs more and takes longer, Cold fusion, in contrast is just a bad joke. CFS expects to have net energy from fusion and a self-sustaining fusion reaction later this year. Maybe then you can believe that it's happening. :-)

[@ChristopherWalkenActor]

Uhhhhhhh....so cold fusion exists all of a sudden? When did this happen?

[@PeterSramka]

It’s not cold fusion. It’s really really hot fusion.

[@chasl3645]

I thought Cold fusion is supposed to be able to be done on a tabletop..

[@briangrainger2264]

@@chasl3645 Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons did desktop cold fusion in 1989. They were shut down by Big Oil and the Dark State because cheap fusion energy threatened industry profits and government tax revenues.

[@charlesvandenburgh5295]

I sure hope Youngkin didn't spend any of our state's money on this concept of a plan.

[@steve25782]

Your're just stupid. You obviously have no idea what the plan is or why it should work :-(

[@tshirtnjeans4829]

Anyone who has seen Spiderman 2, knows this is a bad idea.

[@Absalon68]

"IF". . . Someone figures out how to do it. Until then, this is the biggest "White Elephant" I've seen, proudly on public display.

[@douglasengle2704]

Fusion power has been said to be thirty years in the future for the last fifty years. An aspect that a physics student that had fusion power as her main presentation was that fission power made more sense to be small. The lithium blanket need to absorb the radiation and turn it into heat for extraction would become ineffective in about 18 months needing to be replaced. She probably didn't realize that 18 month to two years is how long a fission nuclear power unit runs before being shutdown for a month for refueling and maintenance. Coal fired plants have a similar schedule for maintenance. Fusion has many advantages over fission if it can produce significantly more power than it takes to run it. Fusion can be made to take place for a few atoms relatively simply.

[@lppoqql]

This is not real fusion.......

[@Michael-j4h]

Fusion is the energy of the future , and always will be😂

[@Corvette22887]

PT Parnum is still alive and well.

[@daviddraper5627]

Some people can talk their way into anything.

[@billsimpson604]

I had a boss like that. He could convince uninformed people that he was an expert on just about anything. It was something to see. All he needed to know was a tiny bit of information about the subject, and he could spin it to make the listener think he was an expert. He was head of a local planning commission.

[@BB-gr9hq]

When did the "breakthrough" occur? I think I missed that event. This is like a very complex equation on the blackboard, and just before the solution is revealed, there is a step that contains "A MIRACLE HAPPENS HERE."

[@noahborthwick3231]

Breakthrough was the TFMC model coil in 2021, demonstrating High Temperature Superconductors could be used to create a magnetic field strong enough for commercial fusion at the proper size necessary to make such a tokamak

[@darkgalaxy5548]

​@@noahborthwick3231 And yet nobody has done so.

[@dougwainer8768]

Last time I checked they have not even met the break even levels of power generation. For a real power plant you need at least ten times as much power coming out vs power coming in. I think it's a con.

[@d.ericanderson1984]

It’s not April 1st… this is a great prank! Youngkin isn’t very clever to have walked into this…

[@DaniEles-rc7ij]

ULL Crap ! -- THis is a fraud.

[@KarlF45]

Another media company creates a fluff piece that lacks any substance. Classic. There will be zero consequences and no one had to do any real work. Bravo.

[@steve25782]

KarlF You obviously know nothing about the work that the world, M.I.T., and CFS have already done and are already in the process of doing. :-)

[@Tom-zg9te]

but the tech is not even there yet? a press release on nothing is like pie in the sky?

[@canyonh9]

There is no real news. Its all click bate. Walter chronkice is long dead.

[@mathewmcfool]

Stark Technology

[@kenmartin5299]

This sounds far fretched at best. What is this guy basing the promise of success.? Il grok it.

[@safelton]

Interesting video, good announcer. I really liked the comments. I had a lot of laughs.

[@josephdennie6503]

What a load of bs....they're lying. They don't even have a working model. Liars all of them

[@Crow44195]

They are looking for investors.

[@tigerstallion]

@@Crow44195 they secured billions from the govt

[@billsimpson604]

But I bet he is getting rich with the con job.

[@mr.watertwister9810]

Wasting money on something that will never be built… can you imagine the cost??? Cost overruns will be astronomical.

[@kentstructures4388]

Theranos 2.0

[@billsimpson604]

At least she was nice to look at.

[@adambeller]

These guys should come take a ride on the California High Speed Rail.

[@steve25782]

Or go to Japan and ride on one that actually works. :-)

[@Alex_Plante]

I smell a scam.

[@Mark-qi2jw]

it stinks..

[@daviddraper5627]

I'm surprised it's just a smell and not a stink.

[@augustpendergast4478]

Everything I read says we’re 20 years away from grid scale fusion power plants.

[@Gibran1517]

In other news, governor of West Virginia set to purchase London bridge.

[@edl653]

The last time I read something about Fusion, there was a breakthrough that resulted in a tiny bit of excess energy. By no means were those experiments even close to practical and commercial usage. I could be wrong, but I smell something fishy.

[@josephmorneau1856]

This reminds me of Nikola.

[@Humblehillbillywv]

Sounds like another opportunity for DOGE to save taxpayers millions of dollars. Time will tell

[@emekae330]

What a scam!

[@TheDeacon-z9m]

It's not a scam. You need to do more research.

[@zvorenergy]

Not holding my breath

[@daviddraper5627]

What is iter in France about.

[@noahholland1795]

If Youngkin is involved, I assume this is still in the pipe-dream phase.

[@johnb4871]

What has Youngkin been smokin?

[@beyondfossil]

We already have clean fusion power from the sky that can power the world at least 10,000 times over for at least a billion years more. Terrestrial human fusion on the other hand: gigawatts in, and megawatts... for a fraction of a second.

[@martyporter647]

Lots of naysayers - check out Helion Trenta - 2 years ago successfully demonstrated a new fusion method. Not sure this is the same / similar. Cutting edge trees, but not science fiction…

[@steve25782]

Helion is one of the scams. They won't even have enough He3 to try their ideas by the time they say they'll put power on the grid. :-(

[@USASMR-o2c]

Gov. Youngkin should be working with the incoming administration regarding the hudred of thousands of federal and contractor jobs that might be lost in Northern Virginia. I guess he's afraid of Trump. Once the Commonwealth of Virginia losses that income stream from taxes, it's not going to be fun for the rest of Virginia.

[@steve25782]

fusion power plants can be built containing all the fuel that they'll ever need. This fuel is deuterium from seawater and a little lithium from the plant's neutron/heat absorbing blanket. :-)

[@rickintexas1584]

Sadly, with words like “if and when”, I have very little confidence that fusion plants will be ready on time. The old adage “fusion is 30 years away” will stay accurate.

[@billsimpson604]

Actually, we already perfected fusion in the Ivy Mike H-bomb test in 1952. But controlling that might be a problem. And the reaction only lasted about a billionth of a second.

[@TVTV-b3f]

What happened to drill baby drill?

[@Delhi_Guy]

Looks like everyone is apprehensive about this fusion project. Just to put up the facts they are bringing breakthrough technology to life. New superconducting magnets which can make it possible to achieve commercial power plant.

[@EnzroGreenidge]

this is a con, mark my word.

[@xsliquidity]

Go Gov Youngkin!! Glad to see Virginia taking chances on possibly a huge innovation.

[@brucefrykman8295]

@@xsliquidity I think you’re on something here Virginia with their fusion power providing limitless free energy will finally prove to the world that yes communism works just like it did for the good old Soviet Union.

[@devilmangamez8615]

They haven't talked about CONSUMER COST! This seems like a cash grab and a scam for the consumer. The technology is great but if its cheaper to make then it should be cheaper to consume

[@lesliegweir]

No mention of how much this "machine" will cost!

[@WokeandProud]

This feels like Elon Musk level of over promise never deliver level of fishy. Why try to get fusion when fission is already a fully developed technology that we know works extremely well?

[@davidhaynes3126]

Mr. fusion Home Energy Reactor converts household waste, to power to generate the required 1.21 gigawatts that powers the Flux Capacitor for the circuits of the time machine to travel to any point in time.😂

[@maximusdecimusmeridius5438]

Vaporware….. just build nuclear plants

fusion predictions are nonsense

[@billahler7728]

Soooooo...... Power out vs power in??? OH, its a proto type. No fusion generator has ever generated positive energy. Its one thing to develop a technology is completely another to advertise it as a working model.

[@sirdiealot53]

Oh a giveaway to Governor sweatervest that will be abandoned in 2026 leaving taxpayers with the tab? Gotcha

[@steve25782]

You should mention deuterium and admit that the cost of the plant is one of the main costs of conventional power, so the relative costs of fusion and conventional power isn't clear, even given fusion's practically zero fuel cost. Fuson plants are more expensive to build and destroy themselves faster, but both these problems will decrease with time as technology improves. :-)

[@edl653]

Can the guest point to a published report about the science and successful experimental models? Saying "MIT" in an interview doesn't count. It sounds like they jump from experiments to commercial application in a blink of an eye.

[@JeffisBest1]

Thats like, (counts on fingers) at least 10 glasses of water.

[@zbigniewkolpak4753]

How can you build something that is not invented yet.?

[@keithstevens5614]

How long can the fusion be sustained uninterrupted? Is that a 400 Megawatt output per hour or 400 Megawatt while the fusion is running but it won't be sustained for a whole hour since magnetic fields will destabilize every few seconds?

[@granitfog]

There is no working prototype, yet someone is going to invest billions.:-D :-D The company itself says: "There’s more challenging engineering and science to be done in this field, and we’re very enthusiastic about the progress that CFS and the researchers on our campus are making on those problems,” I am reminded of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos Case. "So it's ready" ???? I wonder if the State of Virginia is puting in cash for this, if so, pity the poor tax payer.

[@AlexRogers-i7g]

Clean Energy! It's just like that Keanu Reeves movie.

[@FeldMonster]

Chain Reaction, I assume?

[@alexr4208]

@@FeldMonster Yes!

[@NarenderAujla-d9b]

How do I invest, I cannot see the company listed in the stock market.

[@billsimpson604]

It is a con job.

[@aaronvallejo8220]

I'll keep investing in escalating low cost renewables, the falling cost of grid batteries, structural investments in high insulation, high efficiency and electric transportation.

[@Kris0S]

Something is not right

[@donleavell]

I just heard a good sales pitch. I still don’t think it works.

[@steve25782]

You don't know $hit. It has already worked in experiments that used way too much power in their strong but non-super-conducting magnets. CFS now has strong super-conducting magnets that will produce the same fusion results at almost zero energy cost. :-)

[@andyatmosphere]

ABOUT TIME!!!

[@MikeMaulhardt]

In California low cost to generate would equal an ideal process to load up with utility user fees, social subsidies, and taxes. Better to work with a state like Virginia for the commercial prototype.

[@frankmayze2887]

Get ready for Dominion stock to crash

[@steve25782]

Fuel is the major cost for fossil-fuel power plants, and the fusion fuel cost is practically zero. Plant depreciation is the main fusion cost, and fusion plants are more expensive to build and destroy themselves faster, so costs relative to fossil-fuel power plants aren't clear; fusion costs will go down over time as plants become tougher and cheaper. :-)

[@squashduos1258]

Everyone should read the retired Princeton fusion scientist paper on chasing the nothingburger….AND according to him you need fission elements for fusion to work.

[@comfortablynumb9342]

Money laundering.

[@dcae]

That one little “yeah” answering if it could be dangerous tells a lot… Everything else is just representative of what they want you to think. It’s a bid promise, we shall see.

[@richardprice-l5b]

I worked on alt fuels before, in Virginia, these things are nonsense until the technology actually exists. Yet another research project. Great to research but all this cnbc reporting beyond it is nonsense

[@user-tx9zg5mz5p]

So, only 30yrs away now😂😂😂

[@gregoryhart1388]

No 2030 is only 5 years away

[@CM-ny7qs]

Huh? Tritium in a glass of water, presuming that is the isotope used? I’m not so sure that issue is as clearly presented as it needs to be for fully commercial facilities in this interview. Did they solve breeding it with lithium to complete the full fuel cycle? Metal wall degradation? Lots of issues present let alone more common things like hydrogen embrittlement I don’t think are resolved in any case. I’d be interested in hearing more clarification.

[@Skyler827]

They didn't say all issues are resolved, they say they hope to have a demonstration reactor working in the early 2030s. That's about 8 or 9 years. The only news here is the location of the demonstration reactor has been chosen. Overall, the physics of tritium production is pretty well understood, but there's still a substantial engineering challenge in getting a successful breeding blanket working with an operating tokamak, and there's only so much progress they can make towards that until there's an operating Q>>1 tokamak to test it with, which they currently have under construction in Massachusetts.

[@darkgalaxy5548]

Commonwealth Fusion Systems also has plans to unveil a Faster Than Light starship.

[@hfdole]

Breakthrough, breakthrough, in the 2030's.

[@reubencarter3004]

Didn't they cancel the NuScale small-modular nuclear power station in Utah back in 2023? The government lost several hundred million dollars to that so called investment.

[@lostmic]

Wait, so they cracked it, or are they just building it for when they crack it, aka prototype? I assume it's working! I would have also thought CA would get it first since the lab in California has been on the cutting edge and have gotten the first low intake and high output, I guess not. ┐('～`)┌

[@neight123]

This is nonsense. The tech doesn't even work in a lab in any real way.

[@keithstevens5614]

First question should be asked: hot fusion or cold fusion? If it's hot fusion then how did they stabilize magnetic fields, notoriously unstable at high temperatures, to contain the fusion process? Fusion operates at minimum 10 million degrees centigrade. If any of this material escapes its magnetic confinement then it will vaporize anything solid it comes in contact with.

[@Voseph07]

That’s the point of ionizing the plasma and using magnetic fields. Solves that problem.

[@keithstevens5614]

@@Voseph07 Ok, problem solved. It's been solved back in the 70s

[@scottyflintstone]

Doomberg says no

[@sidewayzmike]

Goodbye RBMK, hello FUSION!

[@ekcoylejr]

MIT has courses on Cold Fusion. It works.

[@billsimpson604]

Where are the Chinese plants?