Fusion reactors: Not what they’re cracked up to be

Re:Fusion reactors: Not what they’re cracked up to be by Retric on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @12:10PM (#14204277)

Renewable power is very much going to be a distributed more than our current power generation. Further, you want redundancy in power transmission so you can do maintenance anyway and many countries are already dependent on foreign sources for a significant chunk of there daily energy demand for economic reasons. Any actor that can destroy thousands of cables can cut the power systems we have now.

Further, outside of city's you can generally get solar panels from a roof to provide power for the building under it making the grid a lot more redundant vs cutting cables.

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Re:Fusion reactors: Not what they’re cracked up to be by kpil on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @04:46PM (#14206826)

Exactly, while Sahara is obviously sunny and the land is cheap, it might not be the best place to place solar plants, due to the logistics.

I think that roof top solar is just as viable in more or less the whole Europe - even in the Nordics, at least the southern parts.

The only thing that would make desert-sized solar plants a really good business would be really cheap low efficiency cells.

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