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OKIsItJustMe

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14. The great breakthrough of this design

Reply to lonely bird (Reply #13)

Tue Mar 17, 2026, 10:28 AM

8 hrs ago

What sets this design apart from the multiple “tokamak" reactors MIT has made in the lab is the (relatively) small magnets made with “High-temperature” superconducting tape. They are what contain the hot plasma. (Check out the short video, above.)
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Right. I would have said to the naysayer "Can't we have a little optimism?" FadedMullet 23 hrs ago #4

Well, as optimistic as I am that we will have commercial fusion soon... OKIsItJustMe 22 hrs ago #6

Given our new reality of server "farms" popping up everywhere, you're probably right. FadedMullet 22 hrs ago #7

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This is a press release, not proof of concept or a peer-reviewed scientific paper . . . hatrack 20 hrs ago #11

It's the 75th anniversary of the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. NNadir 19 hrs ago #12

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Really? Edison ran a coal plant in 1844, three years before his birth? NNadir 7 hrs ago #16

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Hmmm lonely bird 22 hrs ago #9

The direct product of the fusion reaction is heat OKIsItJustMe 22 hrs ago #10

Sure lonely bird 9 hrs ago #13

The great breakthrough of this design OKIsItJustMe 8 hrs ago #14

How are they generating the hot plasma? lonely bird 3 hrs ago #17

Multiple methods are used to initially heat the plasma OKIsItJustMe 1 hr ago #19