Why is nuclear fusion so hard?
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Why is nuclear fusion so hard?
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Re: Why is nuclear fusion so hard?
#2It's hard now because we don't know how to do it well. In the future, we'll learn, then it will be easy. History tells us this.
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#3For most of my life fusion has been teased but not delivered. fission has been pimped for decades yet cannot get private funding, or build reactors in a decade, or provide solutions for the waste. Yet still the industries persist with their propaganda while renewables beat them in cost and time to operation. If I managed the funds I'd cut nuclear and redirect to wind and solar immediately.
Re: Why is nuclear fusion so hard?
#4For most of my life fusion has been teased but not delivered. fission has been pimped for decades yet cannot get private funding, or build reactors in a decade, or provide solutions for the waste. Yet still the industries persist with their propaganda while renewables beat them in cost and time to operation. If I managed the funds I'd cut nuclear and redirect to wind and solar immediately.
my point in short is we don't have time for this right now. we need to de-carbonize our energy system a decade ago. this tech. is not operational and will take a decade to be so - that's not time we have to avoid catastrophic climate destabilization.
Re: Why is nuclear fusion so hard?
#5For most of my life fusion has been teased but not delivered. fission has been pimped for decades yet cannot get private funding, or build reactors in a decade, or provide solutions for the waste. Yet still the industries persist with their propaganda while renewables beat them in cost and time to operation. If I managed the funds I'd cut nuclear and redirect to wind and solar immediately.
> If I managed the funds I'd cut nuclear and redirect to wind and solar immediately.
To make those a reasonable base you need to add enough storage to keep everything working even when your current weather does not meet the energy demand. I think setting up that storage is currently going to be the biggest cost factor.
Re: Why is nuclear fusion so hard?
#6For most of my life fusion has been teased but not delivered. fission has been pimped for decades yet cannot get private funding, or build reactors in a decade, or provide solutions for the waste. Yet still the industries persist with their propaganda while renewables beat them in cost and time to operation. If I managed the funds I'd cut nuclear and redirect to wind and solar immediately.
> If I managed the funds I'd cut nuclear and redirect to wind and solar immediately. To make those a reasonable base you need to add enough storage to keep everything working even when your current weather does not meet the energy demand. I think setting up that storage is currently going to be the biggest cost factor.
When you factor in storage costs, how do solar and wind compare to alternatives?
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Re: Why is nuclear fusion so hard?
#8It's hard now because we don't know how to do it well. In the future, we'll learn, then it will be easy. History tells us this.
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Re: Why is nuclear fusion so hard?
#9For most of my life fusion has been teased but not delivered. fission has been pimped for decades yet cannot get private funding, or build reactors in a decade, or provide solutions for the waste. Yet still the industries persist with their propaganda while renewables beat them in cost and time to operation. If I managed the funds I'd cut nuclear and redirect to wind and solar immediately.
> If I managed the funds I'd cut nuclear and redirect to wind and solar immediately.
Why? Research has shown that nuclear fission could be safer per kWh than wind and solar. Just because it's not as good as fusion doesn't make it worthless.
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Links to whatever those are? I googled, couldn’t find