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Seems to me that everything becomes much easier if we just get fusion right. Carbon removal would be cheap at that point, correct? I’d like to see governments
by baron816 5y ago
Seems to me that everything becomes much easier if we just get fusion right. Carbon removal would be cheap at that point, correct?
I’d like to see governments band together and offer up a $1 trillion prize for whomever comes up with a scalable fusion power plant, which would then be released to the public domain.
- DangitBobby 5y agoI don't think fusion is coming soon enough to be part of the plans for Climate Change. People working on fusion reactors have been misleading the public about progress. They have been using a "Q" value (energy in versus energy out) to describe some internal process rather than the entire process. So when they say something like "67% efficiency" they really meant "1% efficiency." 1. https://whyy.org/segments/fusion-energy/ https://whyy.org/segments/fusion-energy/
- TillE 5y agoEven building boring old nuclear fission plants is far too slow! We need big changes now, not in 5-10 years, and definitely not in (really optimistically for fusion) 25+ years.
- exyi 5y agoOr just put a ton of solar plants into the US deserts. it's super cheap now, I doubt fusion will ever be cheaper than just collecting whatever sun sends to us. And for carbon removal you don't need a stable electricity source