Comment by Routine8502
12 hours ago
Hah. Fusion scammers are a dime a dozen. Unlike SaaS apps or finance, though, you can't sweet talk a neutron into existence, so they fizzle out pretty fast. I'm more worried about fusion dying because nobody comes up with a good enough idea than someone stealing my ideas.
Going on a tangent: I think fusion is pretty much useless this century. We already have energy generation technology that has high capital costs and low running costs: it's called nuclear fission and works fairly well.
Fission hasn't exactly taken the world by storm.
There are a few nice advantages fusion has, but they are more important once we want to reach the stars as far as I can tell; not this century on this planet.
But I'm just an armchair analyst. You probably have a much better understanding.
Nah I agree with you. Not this century, not this planet. Fusion rockets are really efficient, though ;)
I just find it to be an interesting problem! My hope is it happens before I die. My rule of thumb is anyone who says energy on the grid in < 10 years is a blatant liar.
Oh, I think energy on the grid in < 10 years is probably technically feasible.
It's just probably not economically feasible, ie it would be a waste of resources to rush fusion so much.
> I just find it to be an interesting problem!
Ha, that's why I was working Zero Knowledge Proofs for quite a while. I don't even hold any cryptocurrency or other crypto assets.
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