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It doesn't get you anywhere to compare numbers between research and industry because ITER won't even generate electricity to the grid. I'm merely saying that i
by RobLach 9y ago
It doesn't get you anywhere to compare numbers between research and industry because ITER won't even generate electricity to the grid.
I'm merely saying that if we have $20 billion laying around you can imagine the practical route of powering the Bay Area completely on renewables right now.
How many $20 billion experiments are we away from fusion reaching those numbers?
And also, why not expand Fission production. We have 5000 years of global energy powering Uranium fuel supply in the oceans. Power everything with nuclear and you have a cool 1000-2000 years of no scarcity to figure out Fusion.
- solarkraft 9y agoFission is crazy expensive to even start up, and with expensive safety mechanisms still a risk. Then you get to the expensive and very risky / guaranteed to leak long term storage of the very dangerous waste.
- a_imho 9y agoWhat is the state of the art in fission that is already available?
- 15charlimit 9y agoFission is expensive to start up primarily due to regulation. Modern designs are extremely safe (fail-safe instead of fail-unsafe) and produce little in the way of dangerous waste. Politics is what killed fission.
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