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Fusion Recedes into Far Future for the 57th Time (cleantechnica.com)
4 points by oco101 on Nov 10, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


> ITER will require about 200 MW of energy input in total running as it creates 500 MW of heat. But the exergy of heat means that if it were tapped, it would only return about 200 MW of electricity.

So it's a machine which turns expensive fuel into useless heat? Not exactly what we need to solve global warming.




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