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Mr. Fusion Comes Closer

Posted by michael on from the just-add-banana-peels dept.

doktoromni writes "The first experimental, sonofusion-based, table-top fusion reactors are now being commercially sold. Although those reactors are not breakeven (yet, would say an optimist), they are by far much cheaper than other fusion approaches, like magnetic and inertial confinement. Also, they open the possibility of portable fusion reactors, along the lines of 'Back to the Future'..."

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  1. not even inefficient fusion by i_should_be_working · · Score: 4, Informative

    sonoluminescence has not been proven to actually be fusion. It's just a lot of light and some heat in water that's been compressed by sound. much more interesting than that though.

    And they claim that this process that isn't fully understood yet will get break even fusion in 5 years? Doubt it seriously.