[Brett66]

Peer review, replication and measurements of Tritium. This sounds like the real deal........

[marvlus]

Are we talking about a potential for clean, cheap, and safe energy? I need a layman's interpretation of this article.

[AntiGuv]

OK, I more or less understand this and why it's so exciting, but here's my question: Is the energy output of this fusion process greater than the energy input?

[BikePacker]

Tiny Bubbles...

[hopespringseternal]

Achieving fusions isn't all that hard. Getting useful energy out of it is.

It remains to be seen whether this will ever be more than a lab curiosity: Just how much heat can they generate with it? Note that producing enough heat to be worth talking about means producing enough neutrons that you aren't comparing it to background radiation, you are worried about shielding the thing so you don't kill yourself.

That is the other dirty little secret of fusion research: It is nowhere near as clean as the researchers claim. There is a lot of neutron radiation and the corresponding danger of creating radioactive isotopes. Once the greens figure this out, they will shut it down just as surely as fission.

[Semper Paratus]

Europe is about to complete a humongous particle collider for fusion research.

It would be great if this is the real deal for US technology.

[Nick Danger]

[RightWhale]

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

They probably included county sales tax in their calculations.

[VOA]

bump

[alnitak]

Sorry to burst your bubble guys, but the headline is misleading. "Replicated" in scientific terms should mean replicated by ANOTHER TEAM working independently. This is a team repeating an earlier experiment of their own. When someone else does it, ping me.

[Redcloak]

Rusi Taleyarkhan... Jae-Seon Cho

Gull durned OUTSOURCIN' FURRINERS!! Someone ping Willie Green. This is just wrong!!