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posted by cmn32480 on Monday November 02 2015, @09:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the fusion-is-still-only-10-years-away dept.

From Yahoo Finance:

Germany is about to start up a monster machine that could revolutionize the way we use energy.
For more than 60 years, scientists have dreamed of a clean, inexhaustible energy source in the form of nuclear fusion.

And they're still dreaming.

But thanks to the efforts of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, experts hope that might soon change.

Last year, after 1.1 million construction hours, the institute completed the world's largest nuclear-fusion machine of its kind, called a stellarator.

The machine, which has a diameter of 52 feet, is called the W7-X.
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Check out this awesome time-lapse video of the construction of W7-X on Youtube.

Additional information can be found at this referenced article from Science .


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2015, @11:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2015, @11:15PM (#257737)

    Jeez, I mean we could put that billion towards the J35 jet and get a reasonable $1.301 trillion budget instead of the pathetic $1.3 trillion it has currently.