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    1 year ago

    Still used orders of magnitude more energy to perform the experiment than the experiment output

    The article literally explains that is not true. All you have to read the first paragraph.

    they have no way to harvest that energy

    Yes because it’s a research reactor. The first theoretical nuclear reactors also did not have any way to retrieve the energy. That’s what happens in production systems, not research systems. Adding in all of the equipment to capture the energy makes it harder to iterate on the design. It really is not a valid criticism of the research being done.

    You are being somewhat disingenuous do not think.