Looks like nuclear fusion is picking up steam
Looks like nuclear fusion is picking up steam
www.theverge.com Looks like nuclear fusion is picking up steam
A global map shows fusion energy projects with increasingly aggressive deadlines.
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Sounds like Tesla Full Self Driving. Yes the marketeers are making more concrete bogus promises because buyers have otherwise gotten skeptical. It's still best imho to treat the announcements as meaningless and wait to see reactors actually producing continuous power.
Molten thorium fission on the other hand does seem potentially useful on a large scale in a foreseeable timeframe.
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What timeframe do you foresee for that?
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For fusion? No idea. For thorium / molten salt (I mistakenly wrote molten thorium)? China has an experimental reactor operating right now, and they plan to build a lot of them:
https://www.neimagazine.com/news/china-refuels-thorium-reactor-without-shutdown/
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The free-market will never attempt to solve energy shortages using proven technology like Nuclear Reactors because they can make more money with fossil fuels. why would they care about an unproven tech that is "50 years" and a trillion dollars away?
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I thought it would use molten salt instead of steam \s
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