This piece really made me think about how your analogy of fusion being the 'Holy Grail' of energy production perfectly captures the persistent challenge and immense promise of this technology, which always seem just out of reach.
Lacking the math (or physics, lol) to comment on the technical aspects of fusion progress, I take heart from this observation: as long as I've been aware of it (1970's), fusion has been "40 years off." The fact that it is now thought to be "20 years off" strikes me as progress. But that's still ~2050, and assumes the current misguided American rulers don't totally screw the pooch & decimate US scientific progress. Guess we'll see, or at least some of us may.
Fusion isn’t happening. Not commercially, not this century. Net energy hasn’t even happened yet and that’s before you get to all the problems with neutrons.
You and I agree that Nuclear is essential moving forward.
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This piece really made me think about how your analogy of fusion being the 'Holy Grail' of energy production perfectly captures the persistent challenge and immense promise of this technology, which always seem just out of reach.
Lacking the math (or physics, lol) to comment on the technical aspects of fusion progress, I take heart from this observation: as long as I've been aware of it (1970's), fusion has been "40 years off." The fact that it is now thought to be "20 years off" strikes me as progress. But that's still ~2050, and assumes the current misguided American rulers don't totally screw the pooch & decimate US scientific progress. Guess we'll see, or at least some of us may.
Fusion isn’t happening. Not commercially, not this century. Net energy hasn’t even happened yet and that’s before you get to all the problems with neutrons.
Go find the Lex Fridman podcast with Helion CEO and learn a LOT about it. Good luck to all, we need this!