Can Nuclear Fusion Reactors Save The World?

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 4 November 2014

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The world's energy consumption is ruining the planet but for decades physicists have been working on what could solve the world's energy and climate change woes for centuries to come - nuclear fusion. Learn about building stars on Earth in this episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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