[Shutsanonofre] Fusion reactors: Not what they’re cracked up to be

[David Keeler]

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On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 7:33 PM Ray Lutz <raylutz at citizensoversight.org>
wrote:

> Fusion reactors: Not what they’re cracked up to be
>
> https://thebulletin.org/2017/04/fusion-reactors-not-what-theyre-cracked-up-to-be
>
> This is an article from about 5 years ago, but it is good to keep these
> concerns in mind.
>
> The recent news about the "breakthrough" where a net positive power output
> was achieved is far from being a reality or "sustainable". It was only for
> a brief billionth of a second, and there is a lot of fudging to make it
> seem that this would produce a net power output. Plus, there are many
> problems.
>
> I'm not against working on this, but it is still pie in the sky. We should
> work harder and not divert funding from renewable power sources, that
> reduce the net heat in the environment, whereas these power plants, if we
> have them, would still have the problem that they are adding a lot of
> energy to our environment. So then, a great amount of this power would need
> to be used to cool the planet. In contrast, solar and wind removes energy
> from the environment.
>
> Also, these power sources suffer from the same issues as nuclear fission
> plants. They are very complex, big projects that do not fit well within our
> free-market optimization system. Solar panels are small and relatively easy
> to mass produce, and they are being improved all the time through this
> competition. Meanwhile, we have the same nuclear power plant designs that
> have known big problems that are not corrected because it costs too much to
> do so.
>
> Thus, this seems like a cheeseless rathole to me.
>
> --Ray
>
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