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the universe's favorite recipe: smash light atoms, harvest the sunshine, never quite finish on Earth.
means The merging of two or more things into one, whether atomic nuclei combining to release enormous energy, musical genres blending, or cuisines marrying flavors.
from From Latin 'fusio,' a pouring or melting, built on the verb 'fundere' meaning to pour or to melt — the same source that gives us 'foundry,' 'found' (as in casting metal), and 'fuse.' The image is molten: things heated until they flow together and set as one. English borrowed it in the 17th century, first for the literal melting of metals, later spreading to anything that blends — physics, music, cooking, and corporate mergers alike.
- powers stars
- Every star is a fusion reactor you can see
- net gain
- Lab fusion finally beat breakeven in 2022
- forge of elements
- Most atoms in you were fused in dying stars
- always near
- Commercial fusion has stayed 30 years away for decades
- hotter than sun
- Reactors hit 100 million degrees Celsius routinely
iter tokamak — international thermonuclear experimental reactor in france, designed to produce 10 times more energy than it consumes
national ignition facility — us facility in california that achieved net energy gain from fusion in december 2022
commonwealth fusion systems — mit spinoff company building sparc tokamak, targeting commercial fusion by 2030s