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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 28424568" data-attributes="member: 562115">At least two decades... The hurdle is the extremely high temperatures required for fusion.  Inside the Sun, fusion takes place at lower temperatures, say around 10 million deg C because of the extremely high pressure inside. On the Earth you will require temperatures 10 times more than this. That's why the Plasma based fusion is difficult or near impossible.What the LLNA scientists did was to trigger the 'ignition' using high powered Lasers. These lasers bombard a tiny pellet that contains a frozen mix of deuterium and tritium (the two heavier isotopes of Hydrogen) forcing fusion to take place.There will be a lot of other technological improvements invented to make this feasible to generate viable power. This is just a small step in the right direction.</blockquote>

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