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"I can't see a reason why we don't have at least 10 of those projects being concurrently funded in the US, Europe and China. " I think it's the same reason why
by maxxxxx 8y ago
"I can't see a reason why we don't have at least 10 of those projects being concurrently funded in the US, Europe and China. "
I think it's the same reason why scaling up a dev team by 10x doesn't produce much more output in the same time. There are a lot of open questions in fusion that need to be worked out. Until one day someone will be able to put all partial solutions together into a working system. In the end it just takes time to try things, fail a few times and learn from others' failures.
- adrianN 8y agoThere are several potential routes to fusion, the tokamak design is just one of them. We could pursue all options simultaneously.
- maxxxxx 8y agoIsn’t that’s what’s happening? ITER is a tokamak, Germany has built a stellarator. Other countries have smaller experiments. Right now nobody has a clear path to a commercial plant so they all try things and see which one works best in reality.
- adrianN 8y agoTokamak research gets almost all the funding.