It was supposed to be renewable energy, and it almost was until the fascists slammed the brakes.
Cheaper, more plentiful, and cleaner. Plus it doesn’t take decades to increase capacity like nuclear does, and it won’t become less safe and efficient due to climate change like nuclear is already starting to.
I always got a kick out of that graph and realistically it can apply to so many worthwhile projects we start but can’t commit to. For example: California High Speed Rail, or really any high speed rail In the US. Preventing climate change
My eye is immediately drawn to the “fusion: never” investment and how far we are below it.
But realistically for fusion whether that would have been true or not, we’ve made huge advancements in computation and modeling, lasers, materials, that just never could have happened on those timelines. Maybe the Tokamak would have worked but the stellarator or laser ignition never could have. While we still don’t have an answer, it might not be the tokamak
It was supposed to be nuclear fusion. Cheap plentiful clean power.
turns out we already got nuclear fusion, we just have to learn to harness it effectively. :D
It was supposed to be renewable energy, and it almost was until the fascists slammed the brakes.
Cheaper, more plentiful, and cleaner. Plus it doesn’t take decades to increase capacity like nuclear does, and it won’t become less safe and efficient due to climate change like nuclear is already starting to.
I hope you know there is a difference between nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, because your comment doesn’t read like it.
Oops, misread as fission lol
They both are “just two decades away”. One exists but takes that long to build a plant. The other is still under development and might exist by then.
Although the race for fusion is getting more exciting every day. We may actually see it happen! And it feels like soon!
Don’t talk as if it was ever funded, that’s the whole point.
I always got a kick out of that graph and realistically it can apply to so many worthwhile projects we start but can’t commit to. For example: California High Speed Rail, or really any high speed rail In the US. Preventing climate change
My eye is immediately drawn to the “fusion: never” investment and how far we are below it.
But realistically for fusion whether that would have been true or not, we’ve made huge advancements in computation and modeling, lasers, materials, that just never could have happened on those timelines. Maybe the Tokamak would have worked but the stellarator or laser ignition never could have. While we still don’t have an answer, it might not be the tokamak
You are applying funding for research to funding for infrastructure? You either have no clue or are discussing in bad faith. Or both.