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Originally Posted by tirsales
To the best of my knowledge it is currently unknown whether we are able to provide said conditions or not: We might not be able to do so ATM, but perhaps next year? Or in ten years? Or in fifty?
Let me phrase it differently: Whats the alternative? We do NOT know whether it will work - so lets just find out.
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I just spent my annual weekend at a SF convention, and listened to two of my favorite physicists talk about the current state of fusion. Right now, they can confine the plasma, except that the hydrogen tends to collect at the surface of surrounding walls in a bubble, which bursts, sending the cooler bubble back into the plasma which quenches the fusion. It's a materials problem, not a physics problem. (sorry if I don't convey the information as well as they did....)