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‘Cheap and simple’ Bill Gates-backed fusion concept surpasses heat of the Sun in milestone moment
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That's a silly title.
The sun doesn't produce a lot of energy because it is hot. The sun produces energy because it is big. All functional experimental fusion reactors operate at much higher temperatures than the sun.
It's a straight up factually incorrect title. Heat is a measure of energy. The sun produces 3.9e26 joules of heat per second. So no, they did not surpass the heat of the sun.
Nah, that's a nitpick. In common English heat is just presence of high temperatures, and there's no specific word for thermal energy.
Also, that would be heat/time, so power basically. The sum of all heat currently in the sun would be larger, considering how slow the convection is among other things.