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Cr4zko t1_izuwrb0 wrote

Reply to comment by Sashinii in Just today someone posted a Twitter thread about Nuclear Fusion... by natepriv22

Nuclear fusion was promised in the 1950s and I think it could have been possible by 1980 if it wasn't for dumb activists. Chernobyl in 1986 didn't help.

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HAL_9_TRILLION t1_izvspeo wrote

If there really is a leap that has been made, I wonder if AI had anything to do with it. 🤔

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NorthVilla t1_izx8wyf wrote

I don't think so. It's clear that the problem isn't really about funding etc, it's about human imperfections in being able to calculate the ideal way to make a fusion reaction work in an energy positive way. Without AI, it would just be guesswork and trial and error, stuff that probably wouldn't yield the same results.

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Cr4zko t1_izx91pw wrote

Do you think it'll be a thing in 10 years though? Europe's current energy crisis seems to be accelerating things.

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ShadoWolf t1_izyibo1 wrote

maybe... but a good chunk of big fusion break throughs lately have been due to machine learning. And just general material science breakthroughs.

For example building someone like ITER in the 1980's.. would have been very difficult to boarder line impossible.. since we just didn't have the super conducting magnets that could handle the current needed for plasma confinement needed.

stellarator shouldn't have been do able in the 80's due to not having machine learn algorithm for plasma confinement.

And internal confinement laser fusion wouldn't have been do able without the laser optics for it.

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Ya.. it might have been possible to rush to these technologies if you where diverting a good chunk of the GDP to this alone and willing to rapidly prototype full scale reactors attempts in parallel

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