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"after startup cost" is the elephant in the room. [this](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544218305395 https://www.sciencedirect.com/scien
by bewo001 8y ago
"after startup cost" is the elephant in the room.
[this](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544218305395 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036054421...) estimates a price of 59.31$ / MWh for the proposed DEMO2 fusion reactor. 34 $ of this is depreciation, ie construction cost.
Wind power is currently at 20$ / MWh..
- pfdietz 8y agoEstimates like that for fusion reactors are utterly preposterous. That's a fraction of the cost of a fission powerplant, even those the fusion plant will be much larger and more complex.