Fusion Energy: Getting to Scale this Century
18 min readFeb 1, 2023
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The Big Bang was the original fusion ‘reactor’
The original fusion power, you may not be aware, was during the first 20 minutes of the universe’s history. Cosmological nucleosynthesis converted 25% of the hydrogen nuclei (protons) by mass to helium nuclei in the cosmic fireball of the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. Before the first half hour had passed the universe had cooled too much to allow any…