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especially for a product that is just hoping to break even on power generation.
by mjhouse 12y ago
especially for a product that is just hoping to break even on power generation.
- venomsnake 12y agoThey break even and are billionaires. They manage to create 2+ EROEI and we are talking trillions.
- baq 12y agoor dead; possibly both (i dearly hope not for both cases!). a working fusion reactor with advertised properties will disrupt the current political balance of power on the planet. intelligence agencies of certain fossil fuel-driven countries might get orders to not let the situation go that far. hopefully certain other intelligence agencies will be able to protect the effort.
- mikeyouse 12y agoThis is needlessly conspiratorial. Oil companies and sovereign wealth funds are some of the biggest investors in renewables on earth. Everyone knows we will reach peak oil at some point, whether through increasingly costly extraction/taxation or increasingly cheap renewable competitors. There is no 'grand conspiracy' to quash alternative energy sources.
- swalsh 12y agoHe takes it a bit far... but its true that fuel is a primary driver of politics in our current times. What that means though is a bit less known. Honestly i'd assume it would be a stabilizer more than anything. It could lead to the end of propping up regimes in the middle east for instance.
- baq 12y agoi'm not talking about any grand conspiracy, i'm far from it. what i'm concerned about is what is happening about a thousand miles east from where i live - in eastern ukraine - and what happens to russian economy when europe stops buying their natural resources because we don't need them anymore.
- dsugarman 12y agoI believe they mean lossless energy conversion