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GarbagoTrumpmolr 4 points ago +4 / -0

One possible explanation is the "Polywell" project. A few years ago it got announced that the researchers were now being funded by the Navy, and then they went quiet. The Polywell idea is a compact fusion reactor that uses magnetic fields more than raw heat, in a device resembling a wiffle-ball. It's one of several projects trying to circumvent the extremely slow and expensive R&D projects being done by the US (NIF) and Euro (ITER) governments. A Canadian company is working on a similar reactor with a steampunk theme.

(For anybody here that doesn't already know this: technically manmade fusion reactors have existed since the mid-20th century, invented by Philo T. Farnsworth of the CRT television. They just don't put out more usable energy than they take in, yet.)