On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 18:49:02 -0000, Tim Streater wrote:

In article , James Wilkinson Sword
wrote:

http://www.space.com/34960-star-in-a...tor-works.html

It doesn't seem to say that fusion has been achieved, only that plasma
has been generated and confined. Neither does it say that any planned
fusion generates more energy than it takes to run the thing, nor how
the energy surplus, if any, might be extracted.

Well it sounds like they've made a big step forwards.

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