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This is a huge deal!! The US Department of Energy will be making an announcement Tuesday on the fusion energy breakthrough. I didn’t think it would happen in my lifetime. Here’s hoping they can make it practical to use in the next couple decades.
This is a huge deal!! The US Department of Energy will be making an announcement Tuesday on the fusion energy breakthrough. I didn’t think it would happen in my lifetime. Here’s hoping they can make it practical to use in the next couple decades.
You must be young. My entire life they have been saying this... and particularly now... is a very good time to start lying about our capabilities.
Remember we won the cold war because Regan convinced the USSR that Star Wars worked.
I was reading a bit and some muckety said maybe 5 years.
It will be decades.
It takes 5+ years to build (just build) a nuclear power plant. And there have been hundreds of those built. It's a well-established entity.
Fusion? There's just been a breakthrough, at the minimal level. It has to be scaled up. all the way to industrial levels. And commercialized. That will be years if not decades in the offing. Then you have designing and constructing an entirely new type of power plant. That's a decade-plus right there. Then there's the ironing out of the inevitable kinks, and beyond that the expansion of the first plants into replacing the current system entirely.
I'd don't think fifty years is particularly pessimistic.
I'm not trying to downplay this development. It's fantastic, the potential is enormous, the implications are profound.
But five years? Twice that isn't even remotely possible.
It takes 5+ years to build (just build) a nuclear power plant. And there have been hundreds of those built. It's a well-established entity.
Fusion? There's just been a breakthrough, at the minimal level. It has to be scaled up. all the way to industrial levels. And commercialized. That will be years if not decades in the offing. Then you have designing and constructing an entirely new type of power plant. That's a decade-plus right there. Then there's the ironing out of the inevitable kinks, and beyond that the expansion of the first plants into replacing the current system entirely.
I'd don't think fifty years is particularly pessimistic.
I'm not trying to downplay this development. It's fantastic, the potential is enormous, the implications are profound.
But five years? Twice that isn't even remotely possible.
Correct. This is a great breakthrough, but we are still decades away (at least!) from a working fusion reactor. Assuming that does happen, it will take decades more to re-build our infrastructure.
The day may come when the entire world is running on clean, renewable fusion energy, when every home has cheap power, heating, and air conditioning, and air pollution is a thing of the past. But it is unlikely that any of us will live to see that day. Our grandchildren? Maybe.
It takes 5+ years to build (just build) a nuclear power plant. And there have been hundreds of those built. It's a well-established entity.
Fusion? There's just been a breakthrough, at the minimal level. It has to be scaled up. all the way to industrial levels. And commercialized. That will be years if not decades in the offing. Then you have designing and constructing an entirely new type of power plant. That's a decade-plus right there. Then there's the ironing out of the inevitable kinks, and beyond that the expansion of the first plants into replacing the current system entirely.
I'd don't think fifty years is particularly pessimistic.
I'm not trying to downplay this development. It's fantastic, the potential is enormous, the implications are profound.
But five years? Twice that isn't even remotely possible.
I was just listening to a motivational audio by Earl Nightingale. He predicted fusion power within 10 years. While I was unable to find the original date of the audio, Earl died in 1989.
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