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It's worth distinguishing ITER from fusion research as a whole. While it's an interesting project, I doubt it's going to be first to market for actual power gen
by rossnordby 6y ago
It's worth distinguishing ITER from fusion research as a whole. While it's an interesting project, I doubt it's going to be first to market for actual power generation. Its design is fighting some pretty nasty scaling laws that newer research is bypassing.
I wouldn't advocate shutting down fission plants with the expectation that they'd be replaced by fusion in the immediate future, obviously, but some of the non-ITER work might end up viable sooner than a lot of people expect.
- effie 6y agoWhich non-ITER work is closer to power generation? Can you be specific?
- rossnordby 6y agoThe most prominent example I'm aware of is the one I linked earlier in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26674988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26674988 It's still not going to be ready tomorrow, but it doesn't require building the eighth wonder of the world.