Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy

Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by dfdz on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @01:17PM (#30276086)

The only purpose of my comment was to provide context for the numbers in the article via a thought experiment involving doubling.

Since the calculation involves taking log_2, even if the estimate for the "used power" is off by a factor of 4 the result will only change by 50 years.

Can you make your qualitative comment quantitative and update the numbers in my doubling thought experiment?

I would be curious about what you think is more realistic.

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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by willis936 on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @01:30PM (#30276330)

A quantitative approach is no virtue here, just a more convincing way to lie.

ITER will use roughly the same amount of power as JET, produce 10x the power 40 years later. Even using poor metrics such as Q you have enough data points to p-hack whatever incorrect timeframe model you want.

ITER isn't even using HTS coils.

If you really want a quantitative projection of MCF performance over time, here you go. Don't lie with numbers if you don't know what you're talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fustion_triple-product_di...

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