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| ▲ | femto 5 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | adrianN an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | mrroper 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| So just like AI? |
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| ▲ | ashirviskas 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Nah, it's a decade away from *now*. |
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| ▲ | dwd an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Now now or Just now? * I've worked with too many Sth Africans. | | | |
| ▲ | blitzar 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | nahhh, definately from *now* though - 100% this time |
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| ▲ | api 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| … 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. |
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| ▲ | gerdesj 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I went to school in Oxfordshire in the '80s. Some visiting profs from JET joked that fusion was 25 years away then. | | |
| ▲ | cbg0 43 minutes ago | parent [-] | | 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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| ▲ | meltyness 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | ... 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. |
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