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Energy return on investment. Some oil extraction is currently at EROI=10, assuming EROI and Q can be made to be the same concept. Higher than EROI=50 is unheard
by candiodari 4y ago
Energy return on investment. Some oil extraction is currently at EROI=10, assuming EROI and Q can be made to be the same concept. Higher than EROI=50 is unheard of today, even 40 is pretty rare. EROI for this fusion method would be ~0.015.
The worst fusion methods scales with the cube of the radius of the area that can be made to fuse. So we "only" have to get a 10x bigger area to fuse, or have the same area fuse for 10x longer (and make the facility not blow up or melt down from doing that).
Working fusion is surprisingly close.