I am glad to hear this, even though by AI. The production of power may be cheaper, but the payback for the cost of the fusion technology and the facility will certainly not provide cheaper electricity, as the system will likely cost in the hundreds of millions, at least. I still hope it actually will work and become common across our country. Here in Montana we have at least one very clean coal-powered generating facility which I think is fine, and I have no idea what the cost of transporting deuterium, tritium, lithium, and other necessary ingredients from one of the coasts (or another country for the lithium) will cost, but I hope fusion takes off.
We did a ton of machined parts for the NIF program run by Lawrence Livermore. Quite an experience actually. There process was shooting a small beam of light down a passage way and shooting it through saline crystal amplifying it and then shooting at a microscopic Coors can with a window on one side. Inside the can was the isotope of the week. The DOE poured a ton of money into that program. Then in 2022 they were successful. It went from front page news to back page news in a day. My theory is it's one of the Big Pharma things. If they were to successful they'd put all these damn utility companies out of business. I dunno.
I am glad to hear this, even though by AI. The production of power may be cheaper, but the payback for the cost of the fusion technology and the facility will certainly not provide cheaper electricity, as the system will likely cost in the hundreds of millions, at least. I still hope it actually will work and become common across our country. Here in Montana we have at least one very clean coal-powered generating facility which I think is fine, and I have no idea what the cost of transporting deuterium, tritium, lithium, and other necessary ingredients from one of the coasts (or another country for the lithium) will cost, but I hope fusion takes off.
ReplyDeleteWe did a ton of machined parts for the NIF program run by Lawrence Livermore. Quite an experience actually. There process was shooting a small beam of light down a passage way and shooting it through saline crystal amplifying it and then shooting at a microscopic Coors can with a window on one side. Inside the can was the isotope of the week. The DOE poured a ton of money into that program. Then in 2022 they were successful. It went from front page news to back page news in a day. My theory is it's one of the Big Pharma things. If they were to successful they'd put all these damn utility companies out of business. I dunno.
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