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One novel approach to clean energy deployment would be to spend some of this money to deploy enough solar, wind and batteries to provide the enormous amounts of
by mbgerring 4y ago
One novel approach to clean energy deployment would be to spend some of this money to deploy enough solar, wind and batteries to provide the enormous amounts of energy needed for all these sub-breakeven fusion experiments. Then, whether we get a viable fusion reactor or not, we all win.
- ChadNauseam 4y agoIt seems more reasonable to me to try to figure out what would be a reasonable amount of money to spend on these projects independently, instead of tying the amount of clean energy deployment to the amount clean energy research for no apparent benefit
- kortilla 4y agoMaybe we should fraud these people trying to invest in a better solution with worse ones!
- willis936 4y agoWe've spent far more on solar than fusion. Why divert the nth dollar rather than diversify? https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2018/11/f57/Examination%20of%20Federal%20Financial%20Assistance%20in%20the%20Renewable%20Energy%20Mark..._1.pdf https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2018/11/f57/Exami...
- pfdietz 4y agoThe problem with that argument is that it could also be used to justify diverting some money to invest in perpetual motion machines. The likelihood of the technology paying off has to enter into it somehow.