Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Not sure why DOE blew it out of proportion.
Hypothesized in the video: funding.
It's not that there is no progress, this IS progress...it's just not the kind of progress that would make fusion practical in a few years and THAT is why we keep getting burned by it, because this kind of stuff makes some people think "it's just round the corner" then a few years go by and they are thinking "well, what happened?". It's not a few year around the corner. Tritium supply is a huge problem. There is the twisted-contorted field reactor that doesn't have some of the issues as the traditional plasma-magnet reactor, but the biggest issue these days is that while they can make the reaction break even as far as the amount of plasma or laser energy...the energy to create that plasma field or laser beam is far in excess of the plasma or laser energy...so it's a long long ways from producing a viable/practical reaction.