For more than 50 years, scientists have been working to figure out if there was a way to use fusion to produce energy.

50多年来，科学家们一直在努力寻找利用核聚变来产生能源的方法B4TP7dat@JjxcSAlm@.。

They've been able to fuse atoms together, but it has always taken more energy to do that fusing than was released.

科学家此前已经能够将原子聚合在一起，但实现核聚变所需的能量总是比其产生的能量要多4gnL4Yee+5。

So the folks at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, what they were finally able to do is to be able to do it such that they got more power out than they put in.

劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室的工作人员最终做到了获得的能量比投入的能量更多u9X.e]aHTT。

That was like the aha moment.

那就像是一个顿悟时刻7&zG9Wp9Yso2-s~9GT。

Wow.

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This can actually be something.

这可能真的是一件大事=UeB@[![P0fQ5Hxd58。

If you watch "Back to the Future II', and at the very end when Doc Brown comes back and he's got the DeLorean and it's got the Mr. Fusion on it and he drops a banana peel in it, it's not that.

如果你看了《回到未来2》，在电影最后，当布朗医生回到自己的年代，他把香蕉皮扔进DeLorean上面的Mr. Fusion，其实不是那样的PbM-g3au1.iZ-。

What this could and will mean, well, a bunch of years in the future, it's a source of carbon neutral, inexpensive, potentially inexhaustible fuel.

这可能也将意味着，在未来几年里，核聚变将是一种碳中和、廉价、可能取之不尽的燃料来源+wW%dMzn@7rqDFvL&2Wz。

It's going to generate electricity.

它将能够用于生产电力_B6nC5Gh.zavb=JYv&HB。

So all the work that we're doing now to electrify, from electric cars to even producing hydrogen and building out our power grids, all of that that we do now is going to be great in, at whatever point we start getting fusion power plants, because they're going to supply a lot of electricity.

因此，我们现在所做的所有电气化工作，从电动汽车到生产氢气，甚至是建设我们的电网，我们现在所做的一切都是伟大的，因为核聚变发电厂能够提供大量电力，无论我们要在什么时候开始建设核聚变发电厂*=TiGGkj=fc。

For climate change, this is not a get out of jail free card.

就气候变化来说，核聚变不是一张“免死金牌”lz)q|7pvhVHdkl。

This is not, "Wow. We don't have to worry about wind turbines and solar and you know, all this other stuff because wow, fusion's going to take care of all that."

不是说“哇7@1lQ=-)CB0Vwp(。我们不用担心风力发电机和太阳能，以及所有这些其他的东西，因为核聚变能够解决所有这些问题KoT[k~fQ;[dabyThhT。”

We need to be decarbonizing now and we can't wait 10 or 15 or 20 years until the first fusion power plant come online to do that.

我们现在就需要脱碳，不能等10年、15年或20年后，建成第一个核聚变发电厂时才去做这些事情(OxX8)*#lcR6W|Z。

So still got to do all the other stuff that we're doing now, but in the end we're going to have a cleaner, greener environment with hopefully a lot of inexpensive power and that's going to be great.

所以我们仍要继续坚持现在正在做的事情，但最终，我们将拥有一个更清洁、更绿色的环境，有很多廉价的电力，这是很棒的事情gF@&DT1N%zn3Q|FF。