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#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy
Lex Fridman Podcast
Fusion Breaks the Trend of Nuclear Fusion
Fusion doesn't work on a chain reaction. There's no chain reaction, zero. So this means it cannot physically exponentiate away on you because it works. By the way, we know this already. It's why stars and suns are so stable. Because they are regulated through their own temperature and their heating. The same thing in fusion. But then that amazing stuff is going to enable more amazing stuff and more, unfortunately, or depending how you see on it, more powerful weapons. Does it terrify you? Just again, to step back at the philosophical, the humans have been able to use physics and engineering to create such powerful weapons. I mean, we should be...
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