There has been a fair bit of excitement recently over the efforts of a group of startups in the world of Fusion energy, such as tri alpha energy, Helion energy, and efforts from Lockheed Martin, to develop reactors on a time scale of perhaps a mere decade from now or less. Im fascinated by this, but still harbor doubts, given the long, frustrating history of fusion power generation over the last 60 years.
Will the extreme difficulty of sustained fusion once again humble mankind, or are we finally ready to tell the saudis to get fucked forever?
Oh, i forgot to mention general fusion, although i think the approach they are taking might be a dead end
>he thinks we won't need saudi oil even after fusion
You think we're gonna be driving fusion powered cars very soon?
Ships powered by on-board reactors? Aeroplanes?
>>7743803
I would hope a majority of cars are made to use electricity within 40 years, or that we can make fuel with genetically engineered plants or something.
I hate those Saudi fucks, I want to see the local people eat them alive
>>7743803
They would probably be powered by batteries kind of like, you know, electric cars.
and the batteries would get their power from the fusion in case you were confused about that.
>>7743807
Wed still need oil for a lot of other things, but us domestic production could probably handle it. Being an energy and petroleum autarky sounds swell to me
>>7743803
>Ships powered by on-board reactors?
First nuclear power plant: Shippingport, 1954
First nuclear submarine: USS Nautilus, 1955
We'll probably see the same with fusion power. And we already have electric cars.
>>7743868
We could build a plane using a nuclear battery right now, but that's a political no no.
Iter is such a classic example of state funded foolishness and waste
>>7743873
Not to mention that there's really no practical need for it. Most likely it would just end up being shot down over some third world country giving the enemy something to reverse-engineer.
>>7744414
I could see a use for it in surveillance UAVs that could stay in the air for several years in a row.
I was reading an article about this. And how nuclear fusion is becoming a big sector in Russia. Well, it already is but it is increasing. There's lot of money to be made from it. The scarier part is that Russia owns like 30% (more or less) of all the Uranium mined in the U.S. They need the uranium to develop this industry that will one day boom bigger than the petrol industry ever has.
>>7743789
Nuclear power is dead
>>7746450
Why would they need uranium for fusion?
>>7746450
rekt
>>7743789
>a mere decade from now
This meme is a meme before memes as we know it existed.
>>7746450
>nuclear fusion
>uranium
what the fuck is this autism
