• @0110010001100010
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    810 months ago

    /s? I feel like that tech has been “20 years away” for like 50 years now…

    • Pelicanen
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      1310 months ago

      This graph shows projections for how long it was predicted to take to develop fusion power depending on the funding. Graph showing how long it should take to develop fusion power. There are five lines, "maximum effective effort" ending in 1990, "accelerated" in 1993, "aggressive" in 1998, "moderate" in 2005, and "fusion never" which never ends. The line showing actual funding is below "fusion never".

      • @AngryCommieKender
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        210 months ago

        So if a billionaire actually decided to fund it, we might have it? It appears that the actual amount of funding is below the “fusion never” line.

        • @Cort
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          310 months ago

          They’d have to throw in like 10 billion a year for over a decade, so we probably need a couple of the worlds richest billionaires