MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy

Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by Terr_ on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:47AM (#28466700)

If only ~30% of CO2 emissions are from power-plants (at least in the US, probably higher globally considering developing nations) then replacing those installations with fusion won't directly zero things out...

... But if "cost wasn't a factor" then we could just simply dedicate the electrical output of fusion plants to brute-force CO2 out of the air.

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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by parineum on Thursday September 09, 2021 @02:53AM (#28467044)

If fusion drives electricity prices into the ground, transportation is going to rapidly go electric.

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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by ben_w on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:25AM (#28470720)

PV is already driving electricity prices into the ground, the limiting factor right now is that batteries are expensive enough that long-term savings aren’t enough to overcome the sticker-price shock at the point of sale.

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