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Last year I met a doctor that work at the experimental ITER fusion plant. He was pretty optimistic about the technology but totally desperate about budget. It'
by Twisell 10y ago
Last year I met a doctor that work at the experimental ITER fusion plant. He was pretty optimistic about the technology but totally desperate about budget.
It's an international initiative and US are actually one of the country that pay the least compared to its Income per capita...
By today funding it's clear that real solutions won't be ready until 2050, hence fission is still required in the mix until then. I don't get how people can blinding defend that renewable alone is the answer, because once you do the math it just don't work.
- wamatt 10y agoAlthough considered somewhat non-traditional, aneutronic fusion[1] approaches may have interesting possibilities on significantly smaller budgets than ITER [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion#Current_research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion#Current_rese...
- clarkmoody 10y agoFrom a few weeks ago on HN, I watched this video[1] that made me much more optimistic about fusion. The bottom line is that the ITAR direction is misguided since superconducting technology has come so far in recent years. The video is worth the watch. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4