floofloofUS scientists achieve net energy gain for second time in a fusion reaction
Faceman🇦🇺It may only be two atoms, but it’s yet another tiny step in the right direction.
It may still be generations before fusion is a scalable and reliable power source, but at this point I think we’ve proved it isn’t impossible.
The energy released was orders of magnitudes greater than that which would have been released by only fusing two atoms, so I strongly suspect that this is just poor wording and/or misunderstanding by the news agency and that what was really meant was that the lasers fused pairs of atoms.