Submitted by rchaudhary t3_11dv0h9 in technology
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kwixta t1_jacwpsi wrote
Yep. The only reason it continues to get major funding is that other use for fusion.
(To be fair, the plasma stuff is interesting and potentially hugely beneficial too)
Alskiessss t1_jac1fjh wrote
Always 10 years away
Ok_Champion6840 t1_jac49ho wrote
I wasn’t aware of the whole ‘makes giant container highly radioactive ‘ that doesn’t seem like a good thing.
Kazukiba t1_jab6zfb wrote
Fusion would be so close if research and ones owning it was public instead of relying on private companies to do it...
PastTense1 t1_jabaycl wrote
No. For the initial decades all the research was publicly funded and progress was very slow.
PEVEI t1_jab1yoj wrote
Or: "Why utopia is still as distant as ever."
2SK170A t1_jab410p wrote
The article was a good summary. It also bolstered my belief that most of us here now won't live to see fusion at scale. I very much suspect that at some point in the near future, simpler renewable power generation plus storage solutions (batteries, kinetic, hydrogen etc) may become so inexpensive that the high startup cost of fusion will seem uneconomic, and fusion will go back on the shelf til we get around to interplanetary travel.