Originally Posted by tableplay View Post
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
Now, does anyone have a take on the recent nuclear fusion breakthrough?
The research leading to the breakthrough was actually for the purposes of our nuclear arms arsenal, but nonetheless it can be leveraged to meet global energy needs. With AI-assisted modeling (due to the ultra-high complexity of all the factors involved), it's pretty clear that more steady advancement, such as the aforementioned breakthough, are going to occur (sort of like Moore's Law for microprocessor performance improvements) with greater frequency. With various groups around the world working on fusion advancements, I believe the consensus is 20 years out for practical grid-connected fusion Mickey. So that's pretty solid news.
Cheers, TP.
Ahh yes magic thinking. Someone else is going to fix this - they always have.

No way it'll be ready in 20 years. We can't even build a nuclear reactor in under 5. If and when they start to scale it then get back.

It took over 40 years of going from oil drilling to first mass produced car. The level of complexity is so much smaller for cars. 10s of thousands of dudes would be able to create a car with a decent machine shop. There are no way that many people could engineer up a working fusion reactor. 20 years? ha !

At least with fusion we could desalinate water from oceans at a massive scale, I suppose.