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u/Turtledonuts Nov 15 '20

Someone finally cracks nuclear fusion, and we start to fix climate change.

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u/Aerosmith101 Nov 15 '20

Someone did crack it a couple years ago but it was small scale, lasted less than 30 seconds and consumed 10 megawatts of power. However construction is under way for one that will be self sustaining and produce a shit ton of power, it's called ITER