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Yes, it is almost nothing when you look at the estimated spending required to achieve fusion: http://i.imgur.com/FR0TsYF.png http://i.imgur.com/FR0TsYF.png
by dntrkv 11y ago
Yes, it is almost nothing when you look at the estimated spending required to achieve fusion:
http://i.imgur.com/FR0TsYF.png http://i.imgur.com/FR0TsYF.png
- techdragon 11y agoThat's one of my favourite charts about fusion.
- adwn 11y agoThat graph is dug out whenever the feasibility of fusion is discussed. It's a prediction from 1976 – you should know how credible decade-long predictions on the progress of unproven technologies are.
- noobermin 11y agoHow does this address the graph? It probably doesn't predict the current situation, but it certainly is consistent with it, that fusion funding is below the "fusion never" line, and look, we have no fusion.
- valhalla 11y agoI could be wrong, but the projections are extrapolations based on obviously overly optimistic assumptions about the a) the federal government's desire to fund large, multiyear scientific projects b) the ease of creating an economically scalable fusion reactor