Fusion is a number of dollars away, not years. It gets almost no funding because it’sa science and engineering experiment that most likely will not lead to economically viable power plants in a market dominated by renewables.
... and room temperature superconductors! If only we could sort out the feasibility, interdependencies, and priorities, but we just don't know, or well, I just don't know haha.
That's progress, if fusion is always only 10 years away now! The running joke used to be that it was always 30 years away.
Fusion is a number of dollars away, not years. It gets almost no funding because it’sa science and engineering experiment that most likely will not lead to economically viable power plants in a market dominated by renewables.
That's String Theory providing "answers", no?
So just like AI?
Nah, it's a decade away from *now*.
nahhh, definately from *now* though - 100% this time
Now now or Just now?
* I've worked with too many Sth Africans.
For those of us who aren't familiar, what is the difference?
… and like fusion it will be a decade away, a decade away, a decade away, six months away, then we have it.
The “decade away” phenomenon comes from the fact that it’s basically impossible to time estimate innovation.
I went to school in Oxfordshire in the '80s. Some visiting profs from JET joked that fusion was 25 years away then.
Back then things were centered around "can we even do this?" and now it's more of "how do we keep this running more than 5 minutes?".
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... and room temperature superconductors! If only we could sort out the feasibility, interdependencies, and priorities, but we just don't know, or well, I just don't know haha.
They should ask Iran to do it, they're only a month away all the time.