<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">πππ<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 7:33 PM Ray Lutz <<a href="mailto:raylutz@citizensoversight.org">raylutz@citizensoversight.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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reactors: Not what theyβre cracked up to be</span></h1>
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<a href="https://thebulletin.org/2017/04/fusion-reactors-not-what-theyre-cracked-up-to-be" target="_blank">https://thebulletin.org/2017/04/fusion-reactors-not-what-theyre-cracked-up-to-be</a><br>
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This is an article from about 5 years ago, but it is good to keep
these concerns in mind.<br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Thus, this seems like a cheeseless rathole to me.<br>
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--Ray<br>
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Ray Lutz
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