The step forward for fusion research comes as Bill Gates this week referred to fusion power as a 'promising' energy source.
Physicists at a European nuclear fusion lab have worked out a way to obtain more energy from fusion reactors than previously thought, surpassing a limit that existing reactors had been adhering to.
Nuclear fusion happens all the time inside the sun, where hydrogen atoms combine under intense heat and pressure to form helium atoms. This releases even more energy which keeps the whole process going.vitacopS/Getty Recreating fusion on Earth has been one of the biggest challenges in modern science and promises a future of clean, easily sustainable power. Every so often scientists make, though a reactor has yet to prove viable for electricity generation.
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