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Fusion energy and the coming fight for the Moon

31 December 2022

8:16 PM

31 December 2022

8:16 PM

It’s been hard to miss the excitement since the US Energy Department announced that its Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had produced a fusion reaction, which, for the first time, unleashed more power than it took to create.

Using an array of 192 lasers to superheat and compress hydrogen atoms to more than 100,000,000°C, scientists managed to release 3.15

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