Gravity well confined & regulated fusion reactor

[Winston]

Every second, the Sun fuses 620 billion kilograms of hydrogen nuclei (protons) into helium, to produce 384.6 trillion trillion Joules of energy per second. This is equivalent to the energy released in the explosion of 91.92 billion megatons of TNT per second.

How Long Does It Take for Photons to Emerge From the Sun's Core to the Outside?
13 Mar 2018

https://sciencing.com/how-is-parallax-used-to-measure-the-distances-to-stars-13710463.html
HalfStar



That video was made using images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:

 

[prfesser]

I thought at first that this would be similar to the "pickup-truck-sized" fusion reactor that someone (Skunk Works? don't recall) claimed they'd have available within a year. That was four or five years ago...

Controlled fusion is just a decade away --- from an early 1970s chemistry magazine.

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

Controlled fusion is just a decade away

And always will be...