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>>amrrs+(OP)
Fusion has been 25 years away for all of my life.

>>8bitsr+TK
Fusion is net positive energy now; that happened in 2022 (+54%).

In 2025 they got a 313% gain (4.13 output factor).

Fusion is actually here and working. It’s not cost effective yet but to pretend there has been no progress or achievements is fundamentally false.

>>sneak+3P
Yes it’s a net positive if you ignore the 100x extra power it took to actually run the reactor, so actually no it’s not net energy positive. Not even close.

Nothing to do with cost, we can not build a fusion reactor in 2025 with any amount of money that will produce more energy and goes into it.