A #FusionReactor pilot will demonstrate the feasibility of its technology in 📆 2027 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/climate/commonwealth-fusion-power-plant.html

#FusionPower

@KnowableMag

the desire to tech-fix structural problems is so depressing.
I get it. Scientists are nerds, and if you have the luck that your field of research receives billions of funding, who are you to say no?

But the policy makers responsible for the allocation of these funds... don't these people, like... inform themselves?

Even IF fusion reactors could be developed in a reasonable timespan (and the billions required for research would not just diverti much needed investments into clean and decentralized energy):

A lot of energy is by no means a solution to the transgression of the multiple planetary boundaries (nor does it help against the rise of fascism we are experiencing).

So, I let you here with this nice figure, you all can draw your own conclusions.

#FusionReactor #FusionEnergy #Tokamak #FusionPower #ITER

Addendae 1 cont'd 2/3

* NIF was never “about” societal energy. Its primary purpose is nuclear weapons research

Author quoted:

* "public reaction to the fusion story tells a lot about our collective psychology
"it speaks to a sense of desperation
* "it’s starting to dawn on people that the future could possibly be worse than the present
* "this causes a cognitive dissonance in that our cultural narrative is one of progress, growth, & innovation

#FusionReactor #NuclearFusion #NuclearPower

Addendae 1 cont'd 1/3

* Stunts explore what we can do (often after an insane amount of preparation, practice, & failure), rather than what’s practical
* Stunts hide the pains & present appearance of ease & grace, but it’s a show
* NIF can do 1 shot a day; this is at slightly more than 2 megajoules output
* For an energy source, it would have to do the same thing at least 10x/second
* the pellet cost $100,000 to manufacture

#FusionReactor #NuclearFusion #NuclearPower