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It'll be really funny if we get a commercial fusion device before ITER has even been turned on. I'm sure they developed some really useful technology in the pr
by dralley 1y ago
It'll be really funny if we get a commercial fusion device before ITER has even been turned on.
I'm sure they developed some really useful technology in the process of building the thing, but I suspect they would have made more progress faster if they had taken a more iterative approach.
- prpl 1y agothis discounts the likelihood that other breakthroughs are correlated with ITER in some way. The first transistor in Silicon Valley wasn’t made by Shockley.
- tobylane 1y agoHow isolated are the paths it could have taken? One major outdated choice ITER took is cold magnets, rather than "warm". Could they have switched this point in an iterative project?