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Indeed. Plus the thing about fusion power is that likely these plants will be absolutely massive, which raises issues about: * single point of failure * hug
by lutorm 17y ago
Indeed. Plus the thing about fusion power is that likely these plants will be absolutely massive, which raises issues about:
* single point of failure
* huge transmission needs
* very large start-up cost, likely banning developing countries from using it.
All of these issues are much alleviated with distributed power like solar or wind (or the mini-reactors suggested by this article), which makes me think it's preferable.
- sketerpot 17y agoOne of the encouraging things about IEC fusion and dense plasma focus fusion is that they're supposed to be something you can do with smaller facilities, and construct incrementally. What you said certainly applies to more traditional fusion methods, though. We've already seen the economic problems of huge power plants with recent nuclear reactors: they're so darn big nowadays that financing them is a huge headache.