Comment by cladopa
5 days ago
Because they are more or less certain (because of their magnets) they will get the necessary temperatures for ignition, giving more energy that it consumes.
If they get ignitions, all the other problems will be solved very fast, because there will be an enormous rush from investors wanting to invest billions.
I hope they succeed, but throwing more money at problems like this doesn't necessarily accelerate progress. There is still basic research needed. Building large, high-precision devices can't be rushed.
They are doing the “basic research” and are actually world leading nuclear fusion engineers…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4&pp=ygUrYnJlYWt0aHJ...
> throwing more money at problems like this doesn't necessarily accelerate progress
"Necessarily" being your Zeno's Arrow. Necessary to what threshold? I can literally argue against anything to an arbitrary level of necessity. (Breathing doesn't necessarily ensure living.)
Also, is living really necessary?