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Renewables are expensive to set up and scale (you're gathering smallish amounts of energy from large areas!), but cheap to pull power out of. Fusion could pote
by annabellish 9y ago
Renewables are expensive to set up and scale (you're gathering smallish amounts of energy from large areas!), but cheap to pull power out of.
Fusion could potentially be extremely compact, extremely energetic, and not _that_ expensive to set up relative to how much power you get out of it. Renewables could make energy _cheap_, but fusion could make it practically _free_.
- alex_duf 9y ago> Renewables are expensive to set up and scale They are cheaper to set up at scale, but also work very well in a micro production / distributed environment (albeit slightly more expensive) I understand your argument about space, you need a lot of space to harness energy, but we're now starting to see deep sea wind turbines, and Earth happen to have quite a bit of windy areas above deep sea. Just the North sea itself could cover a massive portion of Europe's energy production (double digit)
- annabellish 9y agoRight, I'm absolutely not suggesting renewables aren't a great idea, nor that we shouldn't do them, nor that they aren't vastly superior to fossil fuels along basically every access except space (which, as you say, isn't as much of a problem as it might sound) Just, fusion could be better _still_, if it gets off the ground. That's not a reason to not focus on what we _can _do now, though.
- alex_duf 9y agoFair enough!