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the amount of energy released through the fusion reaction exceeded the amount of energy being absorbed by the fuel - the first time this had been achieved at any fusion facility in the world.

In 1802, Humphry Davy had what was then the most powerful electrical battery in the world at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. In that year, he created the first incandescent light by passing the current through a thin strip of platinum, chosen because the metal had an extremely high melting point. It was not bright enough nor did it last long enough to be practical, but it was the precedent behind the efforts of scores of experimenters over the next 75 years. In 1809, Davy also created the first arc lamp with two carbon charcoal rods connected to a 2000-cell battery; it was demonstrated to the Royal Institution in 1810.

If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious sh*t ...

At such extreme temperatures they can survive inside nuclear fusion reactors and on the nozzles of rockets.

"We want to build the best quality metal products ever made. Objects you can't possibly manufacture any other way," said David Jarvis, Esa's head of new materials and energy research.

"To build a [fusion reactor], like Iter, you somehow have to take the heat of the Sun and put it in a metal box.

"3,000C is as hot as you can imagine for engineering.

"If we can get 3D metal printing to work, we are well on the way to commercial nuclear fusion."

Sigma_Orionis wrote:Now This I find hard to believe.

Why?

I don't have nowhere near the expertise or the experience to question it, however, for the last 60 years everyone in Nuclear Fusion has tried to achieve ignition. Lockheed mentions in passing that next year they'll achieve it and furthermore create a compact workable fusion reactor in 10 years.

One one hand, it's Lockheed's Skunkworks Division, so at least they ought to know what they're talking about. ON the other, the claim is.... let's just say extraordinary. So, I'll believe it if they DO manage to reach ignition in a year. Until then, nope.

At the very least, people who do this kind of stuff for a living, are skeptical.