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>If the money poured into fusion for the past N decades had gone into solar and storage, good cheap solar panels would have come out decades earlier, and we wou
by adamsmith143 5y ago
>If the money poured into fusion for the past N decades had gone into solar and storage, good cheap solar panels would have come out decades earlier, and we would have already built out our clean power system.
Panels have been viable for decades already. Storage is an entirely different problem.
>But the fossil companies did not want that.
Then they would really hate Fusion which would probably put every energy company on the planet out of business.
>There will never be a commercially competitive Tokamak fusion power plant.
Seems a bold claim.
- ncmncm 5y agoA Tokamak fusion plant would necessarily be, at best, an order of magnitude more expensive to build and operate than a fission plant of equal capacity. Fission is already not competitive, and gets less so every year. It is not bold to say, about relative costs, that (n > 1) implies (10n > 1), when n is itself reliably increasing.