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2SK170A t1_jab410p wrote

The article was a good summary. It also bolstered my belief that most of us here now won't live to see fusion at scale. I very much suspect that at some point in the near future, simpler renewable power generation plus storage solutions (batteries, kinetic, hydrogen etc) may become so inexpensive that the high startup cost of fusion will seem uneconomic, and fusion will go back on the shelf til we get around to interplanetary travel.

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kwixta t1_jacwpsi wrote

Yep. The only reason it continues to get major funding is that other use for fusion.

(To be fair, the plasma stuff is interesting and potentially hugely beneficial too)

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