[Tepix]

I get the impression that the rate of progress is increasing in fusion energy research. Finally!

Or is it just various fusion startups making PR waves to get more investments?

[adnmcq999]

NIF is a national lab. Haven’t read this article yet but they made somewhat unexpected progress.

NIF is inertial confinement fusion. Magnetic confinement fusion startups have been making waves because of a new type of magnet which doesn’t need to be supercooled and can create the same amount of magnetic pressure w a smaller device (I think). In addition to that, there are the same old and not-so-old publicly funded experiments which have been making good progress of their own. ITER is still being built, but a lot of these publicly funded experiments are tied to ITER.

[pfdietz]

Fusion is reaching (or arguably has passed) its sell by date as alternatives crash in cost. So it's raise money now or never.