Re:U.S. physicists rally around plan to build fusion power p...
by pfdietz on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @05:23PM
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That graph was for a crash program under the assumption that tokamaks work better than it turns out they do.
So, if that money had been allocated, it would have been a failure. There was also not the appreciation then of the grave nature of the engineering challenges facing fusion, even if the plasma physics worked wonderfully.
The implication that we'd have had fusion if that money had been spent is not supported by the evidence.
So, if that money had been allocated, it would have been a failure. There was also not the appreciation then of the grave nature of the engineering challenges facing fusion, even if the plasma physics worked wonderfully.
The implication that we'd have had fusion if that money had been spent is not supported by the evidence.