Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Fusion: Celebrate Roborock's 12th Anniversary from Aug 28 – Sept 6 to enjoy incredible savings!
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For 75 years, nuclear fusion has been 30 years away. Then, a few years ago, that changed: for the first time, we pulled more energy out of a fusion reaction than we put in.

Almost nobody noticed what that meant. So I flew to a fusion company outside San Francisco to answer one question: How close are we, really? The answer surprised me.

Chapters
0:00 The Holy Grail
0:47 Lawrence Livermore Lab
1:44 Net Positive Energy
2:52 Roborock Saros 20
4:49 The Inertia Approach
5:33 The Laser Problem
7:08 The Fuel Target
8:39 Making the Pellet
10:35 The Delivery Mechanism
12:56 Plug-and-Play System
13:46 The Optimization Game
14:52 Conclusion

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