01-02-2017, 03:27 AM
(01-02-2017, 02:40 AM)Rotobeast Wrote: 10 years ago, a friend of mine (a nuclear engineer/physicist at the NRC) told me they were estimated at about 20 years to perfecting fusion.
So, let's hope she was right and we have 10 or less to go.
It's really exciting stuff. I can't remember if anyone has achieved positive net energy yet (I believe so), but it's not scalable or sustainable. While battery/storage tech is probably not where it could be, it will get the job done.
And every article I've read makes the point "it's always been 10 years away...for the past 50 years". 30-50 years is, hopefully, a rational expectation. Not sure it's merely theoretical at this point - I think there's an identifiable path forward.
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