Unlike what the title might suggest, this isn’t a YouTube tutorial for building your own fusion reactor. What it is: a good entry-level explainer on fusion, that powerful technology for creating vast amounts of energy — that famously has always been a decade in the future, for a while now.

From Weekly Filet #413, in October 2022.

We tried to build a nuclear fusion reactor

We tried to build a nuclear fusion reactor

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