When Will Fusion Power Our World? Physicists Might Finally Have An Answer

Image credit: Alexandr Gnezdilov Light Painting/Moment / Getty Images. Article by M. Mitchell Waldrop, Knowable Magazine. Inverse – November 18, 2023. Originally published in Knowable Magazine. 

Scientists have been chasing the dream of harnessing the reactions that power the Sun since the dawn of the atomic era.

For the better part of a century now, astronomers and physicists have known that a process called thermonuclear fusion has kept the Sun and the stars shining for millions or even billions of years. And ever since that discovery, they’ve dreamed of bringing that energy source down to Earth and using it to power the modern world. […]

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