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Gotta have money to make it go, baby... We can't crack fusion because we can't get all the first-world nations to throw 1% GDP at it. I guarantee you, if we th
by cbozeman 6y ago
Gotta have money to make it go, baby...
We can't crack fusion because we can't get all the first-world nations to throw 1% GDP at it. I guarantee you, if we threw $250 billion a year at fusion, we'd have it in 10 years.
- jjk166 6y agoEven if we had fusion working already, a fusion powerplant would be expensive to build - comparable to a similar sized fission plant. At a conservative estimate of $2 Billion per GW, that $250B/yr would take more than a century just to build enough reactors to replace current fossil fuel consumption. Realistically, fusion is unlikely to be cost competitive with other power sources outside of niche applications. Even if fusion winds up powering our civilization in the future, something else will have to act as a stop-gap.