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Theranos Fusion. Edit: There has been Edison, and there has been Musk. If you're not either of them, and you claim other people are doing their engineering wro
by tuatoru 5y ago
Theranos Fusion.
Edit: There has been Edison, and there has been Musk. If you're not either of them, and you claim other people are doing their engineering wrong ... consider that you might be mistaken.
Make a big song and dance about it, you look like a charlatan.
- vjaswal 5y agoI think this take is too skeptical to apply to all the startups. For all the talks from CFS I've seen, they've been very measured and sober about the viability of near-term fusion. The game changer here is not very new reactor designs, but cheap high performance high-temperature superconductors that enable very high field and therefore much smaller size. Other fusion work, like ICF or the LLNL laser fusion or Lockheed or General Fusion all seem to be built on designs that are far less understood and less Q performance so far.
- pfdietz 5y agoThe high-Tc superconductors are nice, but they are not a panacea. They move fusion from "absurdly" to just "desperately" uncompetitive.