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What Fusion Breakthrough Reveals About How We Metabolize Hope

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A Z Mackay
Jan 17, 2024
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The Performance Begins

In the theater of technological salvation, the fusion breakthrough performed flawlessly. Ten thousand articles. $6.2 billion in private investment. All for a process that consumes 100 megajoules to produce 1.

When the physicist noted we’d need “at least 100,000%” improvement, he wasn’t stating a problem—he was writing the marketing …

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