Posted on 11/17/2023 11:35:43 AM PST by Red Badger
Only 30 years away!....................
In before Mr. Fusion.
Damn. you beat me to it!
Hey that’s great. Pretty soon we’ll all be shining like the sun as we are incinerated and glowing in the dark like the stars...
Only 30 years away if the Climate Cult hasn’t destroyed the planet by then
The cost of fusion is too high... Tens and tens of millions of lost jobs and trillions being taken away from some very wealthy individuals. Even if they actually develop it... They’ll never tell anybody.
The elites and governments will keep it for themselves and keep it secret from the rest of us.
We’ll have flying cars first.
the big question is as to whether fusion is 20 years off as ususal or 5 years off.
One fusion company, Helion has signed a purchase power agreement with microsoft to provide one of their facilities in Washington state with electricity from their fusion plant for .01@kwh. That contract stipulates the due date as 2028
They might fail. but the fact that the contract was signed suggests high confidence in that the will succeed in relatively short order.
I didn’t see any of that in this article. The guy who wrote didn’t seem to know. I think he’s from the other side of the pond.
Fusion power has been with us all along.
The sun has created many different forms of power through its fusion. We have actually used and continue to use the ‘converted’ forms of power from that fusion. Direct fusion is above us as we speak, and the converted fusion power is below our feet all throughout the world.
Oil and gas and coal and other forms of power, are gifted to us as converted power from the sun.
Sorta reminds me of the Prison Break series. Great show until the end when they gave the energy secret to the U.N.
Lockheed-Martin said they’d have it by 2024.
They said that about nine years ago, IIRC.
L-M owns (what used to be called) Sandia National Laboratory.
We’ll all die from climate change first.
“One fusion company, Helion has signed a purchase power agreement with microsoft to provide one of their facilities in Washington state with electricity from their fusion plant for .01@kwh. That contract stipulates the due date as 2028”
No one in the media has seen the contract and Helion has not released details. $0.01 is a target but they would be losing money at that price.
NRC hasno licensing process for fusion reactors. Even under the NRC Standard Nuclear Plant licensing it still takes years to get the licenses.
If they could produce cheap electricity there is a ready market for that at higher prices without having a contact that could penalize them if they fail to deliver.
It seems to me that this type of contact would only be negotiated if Microsoft invested in the company.
“L-M owns (what used to be called) Sandia National Laboratory.”
Wrong
“We’ll all die from climate change first.”
I expect to die of old age.
Fusion power: Are we getting any closer?
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No, because the whole theory is flawed, if stars do not actually work by fusion - its a theory, not a fact.
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