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You can construct any narrative you want if you have selective perception and decide to not actually research or learn anything. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.354
by willis936 5y ago
You can construct any narrative you want if you have selective perception and decide to not actually research or learn anything.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.3540v1.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.3540v1.pdf
- ncmncm 5y agoITER was supposed to cost $5 billion, originally. Now it is supposed to cost $25 billion. It is still far from done. Cost for these things only ever goes up, and can continue rising until it is actually delivered, enabling cost to rise without bound, until it is finally canceled. My prediction is that it will never be delivered, and none of the money will ever be returned. $25 billion would build a hell of a lot of solar, wind, and storage, that would start displacing fossil-generated power immediately, and then generate revenue to build out more.
- pfdietz 5y agoAh yes, that paper. I cite it often. The reactor described there has a thermal power density 1/40th that of a PWR reactor vessel. And it uses so much beryllium that using the entire world's estimated resource of that element would let you build enough reactors to supply maybe 1% of world primary energy demand.