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ITER seems to be the best bet that can get financed currently...
by bayesianhorse 13y ago
ITER seems to be the best bet that can get financed currently...
- InclinedPlane 13y agoITER is a mess. It's a stereotypical government program that will do little to advance fusion science and will take so long to build and be so expensive that it will be of questionable value even if they manage to finish it.
- rpedela 13y agoITER is crazy expensive unlike the project linked above which has spent about $1 million total. Tokamak designs have been around for decades and still have not achieved commercial viability. I think ITER is a long shot at best. Lawrenceville Plasma Physics seems to be much farther along than some of the other well-funded projects. Of course, who knows who will do it first and when. I sure don't. But we should be funding as many possible designs as we can not less.