Realta Fusion lights bulbs straight from its reactor, a commercial first
THE SO WHAT
Directly powering light bulbs from a fusion reactor is a small but real step toward fusion as grid-like infrastructure rather than a lab experiment. If your long-term plan assumes constrained or expensive power, start a parallel track that asks what your product and data center footprint would look like in a world where marginal energy cost drops sharply.
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