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Old 03-06-2025, 08:41 AM
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Originally Posted by danglanzsr View Post
The old mantra about useable fusion is, “Fusion power is ten years in the future, and always will be.”
That was VERY optimistic! When I was at GA Tech in the late 70s (45 years ago), the fusion engineers said it was 35 years away," and it still is! Understand these research facilities are very finely tuned machines that are extremely expensive to build. On a commercial scale, it would be massively more expensive, then there's regulation, and NIMBY. NIMBY because fusion is how a thermonuclear bomb (H-bomb) works, so tell someone you're going to put one in their back yard!!