China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible

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If China has managed to do something that scientists genuinely thought was impossible why are there several nuclear fusion research facilities all over the planet? If it’s impossible that seems like a bad use of resources.

I think maybe that scientists thought it was entirely possible, and that’s why they were trying to do it.

Fusion is possible. It just needs 20 years of research first.
That is what they said. Twenty years ago.
How Many Years Away is Fusion Energy? A Review - Journal of Fusion Energy

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I know. They have been saying twenty years since a was very young.