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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by nobody9999 on Thursday September 09, 2021 @09:04AM (#28469198)
>I have a couple of physics degrees, hot fusion is the energy of the future and it always will be. This is not a physics problem, this is an engineering problem and we are just not willing to invest enough money to solve the engineering.

You're spot on. Which makes no sense at all. Given the potential of commercial fusion, we should be (globally) spending at least several tens of billions per year on R&D.

Assuming the engineering issues are solved, those hundreds of billions would be chump change compared to the economic benefits of volume of cheap, clean power.

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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by pfdietz on Saturday September 11, 2021 @08:48AM (#28491573)
If things are not making sense, you need to reexamine your assumptions. I will argue that fusion actually doesn't have much potential, and the relatively low interest in it (as reflected by money being spent vs. alternatives) reflects that.
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