David HsuDec 13, 2022

Sure I'm excited about fusion, but when and if it becomes a viable path to limitless energy, we will still have to figure out:

1. how to get the electricity and hydrogen that we could generate to all of those current uses that mostly use fossil fuels;
2. how to displace and manage fossil fuels economically (fusion not free yet)
3. how to distribute fusion energy around the world.

Still excited!

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/science/nuclear-fusion-energy-breakthrough.html

Scientists Achieve Nuclear Fusion Energy Breakthrough in the US

The advancement by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers will be built on to further develop fusion energy research.

The New York Times
Show threadThomasDec 13, 2022

@davidhsu

Aren't those the same questions the energy transition has without fusion?

Show threadDavid HsuDec 13, 2022
@thomas But fusion might save us a lot of land use issues.
Show threadThomas
@davidhsu those land use issues are policy, unfortunately... and if land use policy has stopped wind generation because of 'noise' and even made Berkely reject students... I wonder what "fantastic" things we will see oppose fusion.
Dec 16, 2022 at 9:11pmWeb