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Guarantee you they weren't generating a whole lot of power though.... And if you can't do that part then what's the point?
The first planes only flew for a few seconds.
Yeah, and we measured them to the purpose of flight... Not wingspan, or how soft the wheels were.
So maybe we should measure technology that's about generating power by.....
I'll let you fill in the blank.
P.S I have a "perpetual" motions machine that can run for 30 minutes (8 minutes longer than this fusion reactor), are you interested in investing?
EDIT: Four years ago the British Fusion reactor (J.E.T. originally built in 1984) produced "59 megajoules of heat energy" none of which was harvested and turned into electricity. The project was then shutdown for good after 40 years of not generating power.
Yes, but you're asking how much cargo it can take while we're barely off the ground. Research reactors aren't set up to generate power, they're instrumented to see if stuff is even working.