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Nah, we have a clear timeline today. Right now, we have fusion reactors that consume more power than they produce. Now we're developing ITER, which will produce
by swebs 7y ago
Nah, we have a clear timeline today. Right now, we have fusion reactors that consume more power than they produce. Now we're developing ITER, which will produce more power than it consumes, but will only run for 20 seconds at a time. Once that's complete, we will move on to DEMO, which will continuously produce as much power as a small power plant. After that, projected to be after 2050, there will be PROTO, which should be the reference model for worldwide mass produced fusion power plants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOnstration_Power_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOnstration_Power_Station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTO_(fusion_reactor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTO_(fusion_reactor)
- beerandt 7y ago>projected to be after 2050 So about 30 years away?
- swebs 7y agoYes. The difference it that it's "30 years away" and not "probably 30 years away"
- Udik 7y agoI'll mark it on the calendar.
- robotresearcher 7y agoAssuming stable project funding, which is probable at best.
- mrkstu 7y ago"This scenario assumes that ITER will deliver on the promise of tokamak-based fusion. That isn’t guaranteed. Magnetic confinement fusion remains a scientific research problem rather than an engineering problem, and the engineering issues have barely been touched." Quoted from the first link on your PROTO wikipedia page: https://community.dur.ac.uk/superconductivity.durham/The%20roadmap%20to%20magnetic%20confinement.pdf https://community.dur.ac.uk/superconductivity.durham/The%20r...