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adrianN 5 hours ago

Tangent: there is little reason to believe that fusion will provide cheap power.

BrandoElFollito 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Why is it so?

adrianN 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s a complicated engineering system with high capex to drive a steam turbine. It’s hard to compete with something like that in a market increasingly driven by intermittent periods of essentially free energy. Too cheap to meter didn’t work out for nuclear either.