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100MW seems like a substantial moving of the goalposts, given your earlier statement that "there is no reasonably foreseeable future with fusion as part of the

100MW seems like a substantial moving of the goalposts, given your earlier statement that "there is no reasonably foreseeable future with fusion as part of the electricity grid" and that I've already cut the timetable by 25 years :) That said, I'll still accept - I'm emailing you at your profile address for the details!

maxerickson 5y ago
"Practical" is in there. A price competitive 10 MW generator probably meets that standard though (Islands, small towns, isolated mills, etc).
- fasdf23967 5y ago
  ...very fast spaceships for the solar system, interstellar big ones probably. With continous thrust.
  - maxerickson 5y ago
    That would likely not demonstrate grid comparable cost though.
leephillips 5y ago
I didn’t mean to move the goalposts. I just want to exclude demonstration projects that might produce some net energy but not be serious commercial sources of electricity. But thanks for accepting anyway.
- Tossrock 5y ago
  I've sent an message to the address listed in your profile, it's coming from a nonstandard domain though, so if you don't see it, it may be in spam. Also, I now realize that the longbet page is still under review, so you might not be able to see that either until the staff approve it.
  - kbenson 5y ago
    I wonder how many of the bets on the longbets site stem from HN discussions. Probably not a significant number, but it would be deeply interesting to go back and read the discussions that spawned them.
    - toomuchtodo 5y ago
      Longbets should include a link to the thread in question in the bet. Edit: Would be nice to have a link to refer back to the discussion that led to the bet. To my knowledge, most bets do not provide such a citation.
      - kbenson 5y ago
        Is that a prescriptive or descriptive statement? I just looked at about 20 and didn't see anything immediately obvious, but that was with in page text search, and not actually paying attention enough to tell whether it's common or encouraged to include a link to online discussions in general (and I would happily search for a data set or scrape the data if I could expect to find it there).
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dennis_jeeves 5y ago
So how we know who is the winner,in case of disputes? Are you guys going to appoint arbitrators?

maxerickson 5y ago

"Practical" is in there. A price competitive 10 MW generator probably meets that standard though (Islands, small towns, isolated mills, etc).

fasdf23967 5y ago
...very fast spaceships for the solar system, interstellar big ones probably. With continous thrust.
- maxerickson 5y ago
  That would likely not demonstrate grid comparable cost though.

leephillips 5y ago

I didn’t mean to move the goalposts. I just want to exclude demonstration projects that might produce some net energy but not be serious commercial sources of electricity. But thanks for accepting anyway.

Tossrock 5y ago
I've sent an message to the address listed in your profile, it's coming from a nonstandard domain though, so if you don't see it, it may be in spam. Also, I now realize that the longbet page is still under review, so you might not be able to see that either until the staff approve it.
- kbenson 5y ago
  I wonder how many of the bets on the longbets site stem from HN discussions. Probably not a significant number, but it would be deeply interesting to go back and read the discussions that spawned them.
  - toomuchtodo 5y ago
    Longbets should include a link to the thread in question in the bet. Edit: Would be nice to have a link to refer back to the discussion that led to the bet. To my knowledge, most bets do not provide such a citation.
    - kbenson 5y ago
      Is that a prescriptive or descriptive statement? I just looked at about 20 and didn't see anything immediately obvious, but that was with in page text search, and not actually paying attention enough to tell whether it's common or encouraged to include a link to online discussions in general (and I would happily search for a data set or scrape the data if I could expect to find it there).
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dennis_jeeves 5y ago

So how we know who is the winner,in case of disputes? Are you guys going to appoint arbitrators?