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> The nuclear fusion startup Helion, which announced last week that it has raised $500 million, says it has developed new technologies that may make nuclear fusion viable — practically, economically and environmentally. This is the only actual news in the article. The rest is bog-standard speculation.
Think of all the fusion powered direct air CO2 capture we could have <3
>Think of all the fusion powered direct air CO2 capture we could have Oh, trees? ;-)
Trees are still great though, for innumerable other reasons.
Nuclear Fusion has been 20 years away for 70 years.
Oh, wow, now we're actually driving electric cars!
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Is this still an issue when fusion power is available?
No, but the parent to my comment implied trees as being the source of that fusion power. Nobody's going to be able to use trees to power the desalination plants that allow us to irrigate the land so that we can grow those trees.
The fusion energy that is powering the system is that of our sun. No perpetual motion machine required, our planet is being bathed in outside energy.
Nuclear Fusion has been 20 years away for 70 years.
I was hopeful for a bit, then I saw some stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JurplDfPi3U and realized nothing has changed. It's the same old shit: reporters being willfully ignorant, business people misleading the public, and on and on. Wake me up when you have plans for a full-scale, fully-functional fusion plant that can actually be built in an economically feasible way. Until then, I don't care.
I don't get it. If you're not into following the tech development, only interested in the final stage, why would you even open this and bother commenting?
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Just like electric cars... Oh, wow, now we're actually driving electric cars!
We had electric cars 130 years ago.
As fusion isn't practical, electric cars were not practical mass mean of transportation until very recently.
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What to do with spent fuel rods is more of a political problem than a technical one. Read up on Yucca Mountain. Current thinking is that the best approach to long term disposal is to find a cold hard-rock mountain where nothing has changed much in millions of years. Dig tunnels that are far above any possible flooding. Drill vertical holes in the tunnels. Package the nuclear waste in stainless steel thimbles, with th…
First question I have about it: wouldn't it be an attractive target for bombing/terrorist attacks or would it be rock solid enough to withstand those?
Eh, Americans.
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What to do with spent fuel rods is more of a political problem than a technical one. Read up on Yucca Mountain. Current thinking is that the best approach to long term disposal is to find a cold hard-rock mountain where nothing has changed much in millions of years. Dig tunnels that are far above any possible flooding. Drill vertical holes in the tunnels. Package the nuclear waste in stainless steel thimbles, with th…
First question I have about it: wouldn't it be an attractive target for bombing/terrorist attacks or would it be rock solid enough to withstand those?
The incidence rate of people inclined to terrorism is vanishingly low. And when you start talking about plots that require numerous people to cooperate, rather than a single lonewolf nut, there is even less to worry about. The more people a plot requires, the less likely it is to actually happen. Coordinated attacks against nuclear power plants or waste disposal facilities are fantasy.