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It might. I think most people expect tokomaks to be more practical, but generating power from inertial confinement is at least theoretically possible. It might even be reasonably cost-effective if someone can figure out how to manufacture the hohlraums/fuel capsules cheaply.


Big if. Chemical problems seem harder than nuclear ones. Less absolute science, more a matter of getting lucky.


This is ACTUALLY what science is. Discovery.




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