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LOL. ITER is not and has never been meant to be a fusion power plant. That would be DEMO.
Don’t hold your breath.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOnstration_Power_Plant
Fusion power will never, ever happen. Ever.
Look at CFS SPARC, not ITER
They will have an actual functioning fusion machine with Q>10 by end of this year thanks to high temperature superconductors that were not available when ITER started
https://cfs.energy/
Thanks for the laugh!
I’ve put a note in my calendar for December 2025.
Yeah just wait for the oil/LNG and helium reserves to run out. 🫠
Yes, I’m sure something as simple and resource-light as a fusion reactor will be exactly the thing we’ll be able to build when the oil runs out.
Oil/LNG not likely to be exhausted in our lifetime, nor do we seem to have the global political willpower to do enough about climate change or perturb capital. Furthermore, the article talks about a lack of VC finding making it unlikely to be viable in the mean time. This is the basis of the sardonic statement in agreement with your comment but also intending to cast a political light on the concern from my end.
Indeed not, but that EROEI is going towards 1, and maybe even <1. That’s not the same type of civilization any more. One sends people to play golf on the Moon to impress the neighbors.
The other densifies its cities in desperation hoping the food doesn’t run out.
Yes. i much prefer the gay luxury space communism and capital must be destroyed if we want to survive.