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tsotha on Oct 9, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Peter Thiel Is Wrong About the Future

Uh huh. Exactly what will they have accomplished by 2020? Ignition? Who cares? Based on their own timeline the earliest possible date for a commercial fusion reactor is 2050.

anonbanker on Oct 9, 2014 [–]

I'll just leave this [1] here. Seems we'll have more than just ignition in 2020. :)

1. http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/ON-British-boy-builds-fusi...

tsotha on Oct 10, 2014 | [–]

That article could have been from 1955, you know.

anonbanker on Oct 10, 2014 | | [–]

It had an equal likelihood of being from 2020, as well.

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