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Scientists achieve major breakthrough in the quest for limitless energy: 'It's setting a world record' (www.yahoo.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Holy lazy journalism. That's a picture of a completely different reactor.

[–] threelonmusketeers 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ha, yeah, you're right. Looks to be a stock image of a tokomak render. The original report by Interesting Engineering has a photo of the actual device:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I need a banana for scale. I think it's slightly taller than a story?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

~~See the red and white dashed line? That's the width of a 6 lane freeway.~~

Edit: joke clearly unappreciated, here is a photo with people standing next to it: https://arpa-e.energy.gov/news-and-media/blog-posts/arpa-e-investor-update-vol-17-realta-fusion-magnetic-mirror

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I appreciate your dad joke.