• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    Practical power production through nuclear fusion still requires significant developments for it to be realised at scale, though several startups are already planning to deliver it within the next few years.

    US-based Helion Energy secured the world’s first purchase agreement for nuclear fusion energy in 2023, promising to provide 50MW of fusion power to Microsoft by 2028.

    I mean, time will tell. But that seems a bit sooner than 2100.

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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      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.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        you techno utopians are funny.

        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”