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59 megajoules in useful units is 16kWh, less than 2 days use of my house. That's the biggest fusion reaction ever.
One novel approach to clean energy deployment would be to spend some of this money to deploy enough solar, wind and batteries to provide the enormous amounts of energy needed for all these sub-breakeven fusion experiments. Then, whether we get a viable fusion reactor or not, we all win.
This is great news. That said, what the literal fuck -- we've previously been investing 1/850,000th of global GDP in one of 4-5 truly promising energy technologies while the world burns before our eyes?
Fusion isn't a silver bullet even if it works. If it costs more than solar+battery then it's worthless.
There will always be places where solar+battery isn't viable. Northern Canada and Alaska come to mind.
I wonder how this compares to the amount of money invested in crypto startups in the past few years. (I don't mean the value of crypto or the amount of money that was traded into it -- just the amount VCs invested into crypto startups.) I don't know if that means people that allocate capital think crypto has a better chance of changing the world than nuclear fusion -- or if it's something else. But it is strange to c…
This is great news. That said, what the literal fuck -- we've previously been investing 1/850,000th of global GDP in one of 4-5 truly promising energy technologies while the world burns before our eyes?
Fusion isn't a silver bullet even if it works. If it costs more than solar+battery then it's worthless.
I wonder how this compares to the amount of money invested in crypto startups in the past few years. (I don't mean the value of crypto or the amount of money that was traded into it -- just the amount VCs invested into crypto startups.) I don't know if that means people that allocate capital think crypto has a better chance of changing the world than nuclear fusion -- or if it's something else. But it is strange to c…
There are probably a lot more founders with crypto ideas than founders with fusion ideas.
This is great news. That said, what the literal fuck -- we've previously been investing 1/850,000th of global GDP in one of 4-5 truly promising energy technologies while the world burns before our eyes?
the profits in 1 year from silicon valley can solve world hunger by buying every single man woman child 3 meals a day, every day.
3 meals per day, 5$ per meal for 365 days is 3,832,500,000,000$
This is great news. That said, what the literal fuck -- we've previously been investing 1/850,000th of global GDP in one of 4-5 truly promising energy technologies while the world burns before our eyes?
the profits in 1 year from silicon valley can solve world hunger by buying every single man woman child 3 meals a day, every day.
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There are probably a lot more founders with crypto ideas than founders with fusion ideas.
That would be an argument for having more investment into fusion.
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the profits in 1 year from silicon valley can solve world hunger by buying every single man woman child 3 meals a day, every day.
700 million people live in poverty 3 meals per day, 5$ per meal for 365 days is 3,832,500,000,000$