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Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds
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2024-11-11
That's actually really interesting, as I never heard of that before.
Yeah you're absolutely right, damn that'd be one hell of a Holy Grail touchdown moment for Humanity if we could pull that off, the direct transference, no "middle man".
From the link (for others like me and did not know what the word meant)...
I mean, in principle we can already do it: Fusion reactions tend to produce lots of electromagnetic radiation, and we can drive wires directly via electromagnetic radiation, the technology is called solar panels. Trouble being solar panels generally aren't good at absorbing X-rays.