World's largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up

Re:World's largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up by robertlagrant on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @08:54AM (#38543887)

> It is solved already, all that remains to do is to build it. Germany has enough gas storage to last a year, and we know how to generate gas from electricity. It's being done in several places already.

If storage is solved, then I think we would've heard about it.

> That said, spending billions on things that won't solve any problems for the nest 50 years and using that as a reason to not actually do the thing that will work is inexcusable. At least do both.

Who is using this as a reason to not do the other thing?

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Re:World's largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up by Kon5ole on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @01:38PM (#38547845)

>If storage is solved, then I think we would've heard about it.

Here's one of many many ways how the storage problem has been solved: https://www.siemens-energy.com/global/en/home/products-servi...

>Who is using this as a reason to not do the other thing?

It's not stated directly of course but if you look at the money there is a discrepancy. The largest battery storage facility in Europe cost about 90 million euros, while the EU has granted over 5000 million to the ITER Tokamak project.

So, clearly one thing is being done at a much larger scale than the other thing, deliberately or not.

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