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OKIsItJustMe

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2. Yes, there is, but...
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 01:52 PM
Oct 2024

If we’re talking about 9 figures, is the difference “significant?”

For what it’s worth, I believe the 100 Million was more of an expression of magnitude than a precise figure. This story, uses a different threshhold:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/08/climate/nuclear-fusion-energy-milestone-climate/index.html

To generate fusion energy, the team raised temperatures in the machine to 150 million degrees Celsius — around 10 times hotter than the core of the sun. That extreme heat forces the deuterium and tritium to fuse together and form helium, a process that in turn releases enormous amounts of heat.

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