(Blog Post) Starting from relatively small pilot units, research has progressed to huge, complex projects that promise the breakthroughs needed to make fusion usable. But now that it’s come time to built these fusion mega-projects, the unfortunate reality is setting in. Full Story »
Posted by Jon Mitchell
Though brief, this blog post is a helpful rundown of current fusion projects around the world, and it is circumspect about the costs and practical concerns.
This short report is a light status overview. The claim regarding budgets is given some attention here, but the claim about progress is described only anecdotally. Three links.
The headline is completely wrong. Fusion is not even slightly promising. It is a sinkhole for vast amounts of spending. Meanwhile technologies that actually work, like nuclear fission, are starved for attention.
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