Scientists at a government-funded lab have announced the first nuclear fusion reaction in a long-running project that researchers hope decades from now can provide limitless, carbon-free energy.
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility announced on Dec. 13 that they recently produced more energy than it took to create the reaction. If the experiment can be recreated at scale, it has the potential to move people off of fossil fuels in a significant way, a major environmental goal of President Joe Biden’s administration. And one with vast commercial opportunities in the clean energy market.
That’s still likely decades away, but the breakthrough announced by the Northern California facility is already a culmination of years of work to get to that point. The first fusion research goes back to…
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