JET's final nuclear fusion experiment produced a record-breaking 69 megajoules of heat. Nice.

Clean energy could be ‘closer than ever’ after a nuclear fusion machine smashed a record::JET’s final nuclear fusion experiment produced a record-breaking 69 megajoules of heat. Nice.

  • wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
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    10 months ago

    69 MJ is 19.17 kWh. About 86p of electricity at today’s wholesale price in the UK (£45/MWh: today is fairly average).

    The research they are doing is great, but there’s so much engineering to be done to turn fusion into something practical; something capable of running streams of pulses, not just single ones.

    This was the last experiment for this reactor running it outside of design limits.