On: Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100M°C for ...

[sien]

There are fusion companies that are trying to make aneutronic fusion work. This form of fusion doesn't involve boiling water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion

Helion Energy is the best known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helion_Energy

HB11 is another one

https://hb11.energy/

[ncmncm → sien]

Helion might conceivably make something useful someday.

The others will just spend investors' money until it dries up. Helion too, most likely.

[cbozeman → ncmncm]

Well if I'm going to throw money at a pointless endeavour, I could think of quite a few worse than this.

[ncmncm → cbozeman]

Pointlessness is.

If you want to maximize pointlessness, Energy Vault is right there. But defrauding investors doesn't seem like a great choice to enable.

Maybe it would be better to do what might help avert global civilization collapse, thermonuclear war, and mass starvation?

Investing in practical energy-storage tech factory build-out, solar farms co-sited on reservoirs and pastures, cost-effective hydrogen and ammonia synthesis tech are all overwhelmingly better uses, and can all be equally as cool.

[pfdietz → sien]

HB11 strikes me a nonstarter. Their proposed direct conversion mechanism is obvious nonsense, and the putative "avalanche" mechanism they want to use to make the nuclear reactions go has been savagely critiqued in the literature.