Re:Germany to Rethink Nuclear Shutdown as Energy Crisis Deepens
by ncmncm on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @04:53PM
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It is not impossible. It just would cost way more than fission, which already costs way more than renewables, and the gap widens daily.
I also do not back orbital, beamed solar power. That, too, could work. But it, also, would cost more.
Things that cost more displace less CO2 emission, per dollar spent. We have a need to maximize displacing CO2 emission.
It was and is a speculative technology, but what is the harm in reallocating funding from say, fossil fuel subsidies, into fusion R&D? Even as a purely scientific endeavor, who knows what kinds of useful knowledge and applicable by-products might be found along the way. If fusion is such a dead end, why have there actually been new discoveries made over the past several years, even if they might be hyped? Do you believe MIT/CFS, TAE, JET, or ASIPP are just burning money or something? Who are you to claim that a technology is impossible? Skepticism in fission does not have to convert to the dismissal of fusion.