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Re:ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly by nicoburns on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:06PM (#23982047)
My bet is that large scale storage is a much, much easier problem to solve than power-generating nuclear fusion.
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Re:ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly by mytailorisrich on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @04:37AM (#23984563)
Yes, but that does not change anything to the point of the importance of nuclear (fission) power.
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Re:ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly by nicoburns on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:10PM (#23988369)
That depends on how quickly you think the storage problem can be solved. If it can be solved in 10 years then it makes little sense to build more nuclear (fission) capacity, because it will be obsolete by the time it is built.
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Re:ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly by mytailorisrich on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @02:09PM (#23989792)
Storage is only part of the problem, though a big one. The area that needs to be covered with solar panels and windmills is another one.
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Re:ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly by nicoburns on Thursday July 30, 2020 @05:23AM (#23996130)
> The area that needs to be covered with solar panels and windmills is another one.

I don't really see that as a huge problem. There's loads of free area for solar panels on rooftops. Sure, it's more expensive to build solar there. But that's not even an engineering problem, it's simply a matter of allocating funds to it. And most of the cost is labour. Which is arguably a bit of a bonus in a world where we're constantly worrying about there not being enough jobs.

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