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Setting aside the wildly suspect 1T claim, I’m not convinced by the argument. Fusion power plants are fixed large-scale facilities. In a war zone you need mobil
by vlovich123 3y ago
Setting aside the wildly suspect 1T claim, I’m not convinced by the argument. Fusion power plants are fixed large-scale facilities. In a war zone you need mobile power sources. I could see a fusion reactor powering a ship and maybe powering temporarily shore-based facilities. AFAIK the military is looking at solar for mobile power in forward deployments though which makes sense. Unless the argument is that fusion is used to generate transportable fuel (hydrogen, efuels etc). But then that argument is weird because the military would be doing that with fission today which actually exists and it has to expensive field experience with and supply chains supporting.
- indymike 3y ago> Fusion power plants are fixed large-scale facilities. Large scale facilities really are not all that interesting. They concentrate cost, danger and impose lots of logistical limitations.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoConsider the Lockheed Skunk Works project - it's supposed to be portable.