331 | One Small Step Towards a Fusion Energy Breakthrough with Charles Seife
The Realignment
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NIFS Laser Fusion Power Plant
The laser certainly NIFS laser version is a dead end for fusion energy. I think the magnetic versions, which is a magnetic bottle usually in the shape of a donut, are more likely that you can say we are 70% of the way they're almost. The second stage is figuring out how to make that commercially viable and create a power plant design from that demonstration power plant. We're talking two to three generations out before we see fusion energy on the grid.
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