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Fusion plants cannot be 100x bigger. The grid doesn't cope well with current 2GWe plants going offline suddenly. It would not cope at all with a 200GWe plant d
by tuatoru 5y ago
Fusion plants cannot be 100x bigger.
The grid doesn't cope well with current 2GWe plants going offline suddenly. It would not cope at all with a 200GWe plant doing that.
Besides the waste heat dissipation issues...
- pfdietz 5y agoAlso, fusion plants have inherent diseconomy of scale, from the square-cube law. There is a limit to the energy flux through the surface of the reactor, and because of that the volumetric power density of the reactor is inversely proportional to its linear size.