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minus-square@0110010001100010link8•8 months ago/s? I feel like that tech has been “20 years away” for like 50 years now…
minus-squarePelicanenlinkfedilink13•8 months agoThis graph shows projections for how long it was predicted to take to develop fusion power depending on the funding.
minus-square@AngryCommieKenderlink2•8 months agoSo if a billionaire actually decided to fund it, we might have it? It appears that the actual amount of funding is below the “fusion never” line.
minus-square@Cortlink3•8 months agoThey’d have to throw in like 10 billion a year for over a decade, so we probably need a couple of the worlds richest billionaires
/s? I feel like that tech has been “20 years away” for like 50 years now…
This graph shows projections for how long it was predicted to take to develop fusion power depending on the funding.
So if a billionaire actually decided to fund it, we might have it? It appears that the actual amount of funding is below the “fusion never” line.
They’d have to throw in like 10 billion a year for over a decade, so we probably need a couple of the worlds richest billionaires