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I don’t think we’ll have the choice.

• fundatus 1y ago
  > I like fusion, really. I’ve talked to some of luminaries that work in the field, they’re great people. I love the technology and the physics behind it. > But fusion as a power source is never going to happen. Not because it can’t, because it won’t. Because no matter how hard you try, it’s always going to cost more than the solutions we already have. https://matter2energy.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/why-fusion-will-never-happen/ https://matter2energy.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/why-fusion-wi...
  • rimeice 1y ago
    Yeh current tech is expensive and would likely be uncompetitive. At the very very end of that article is the key to this though: > I fully support a pure research program for radically different approaches to fusion.
• tim333 1y ago
  We've got by without them so far and solar is cracking along.
• _heimdall 1y ago
  That's not how invention works though. Something has to be technically possible and we have to discover how to do it in a viable way.