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China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2026
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I mean, time will tell. But that seems a bit sooner than 2100.
Lol any year now!
https://www.solarenspace.com/
ha hahahahaahaaaa.... oh boy... you techno utopians are funny. Maybe build a Space Elevator out of 3D printed AI Bitcoins and run a fusion reactor at the Lagrange point? Privately! On the Moon! To colonize Mars and mine the asteroids! Become a multi star species!
OK, time will tell. How about I save you the wait: nothing will happen. At all.
I remember hearing this about solar power ten years ago. And electric cars. And cloud computing, even.
It was never going to be economically viable. Always ten years away from viability. Not competitive with whatever the industry leader was at the time.
Really putting all your chips on "nothing ever changes"
Ten years ago Swanson's law for solar photovoltaics was well established, not comparable.
"It's only sunny during the day" is a line uttered ad nauseum by people who didn't see lithium batteries falling through the same price drop.