Experts still see big roadblocks for inertial confinement as a practical energy source. That’s why other teams are pursuing other means of fusion—namely magnetic confinement, which uses magnetic fields to hold plasma—to prove that pathway to clean energy. Other projects like ITER—a massive tokamak under construction in France—are attempting to generate record amounts of energy output, though they will never be part of the energy grid.
ITER and projects like it also have massive energy hurdle to overcome due to the power requirements to generate the magnetic fields.
Whatever fusion sources come from this research we desperately need them as our energy needs are not slowing down and are outpacing the energy budget.
Don’t get me wrong I think bitcoin mining, AI training, and other energy sinks were a mistake and are a massive burden on our environment. However since it’s unlikely the billionaire class will allow for degrowth, fusion might be a way out of the hole we’ve dug.
However since it’s unlikely the billionaire class will allow for degrowth, fusion might be a way out of the hole we’ve dug.
The industrial revolution that fusion might be able to fuel would still need to solve climate change, because every increase in energy throughput also increases energy in the radiative budget. Geoengineering might become no-return necessity at this point.
Doesn’t our current energy production add something like 5 orders of magnitude less than insolation? How many multiples of our current energy production before the effect is non-negligible?
Agreed Hopefully we would have time to do so before we require a dyson sphere.
I get your point but i have to disagree. Fusion still looks promising but we’re nowhere near mass production of enerfy at this point and people are kind of using it to explain their lazyness. Billionaires and presidents dont say whats going on, we do. Please join unions and groups that help change this shit. Energy isnt our only problem either. Either we make it change or it stays like this.
I’m an anarcho-syndicalist. I’m fully tied into labor organizing efforts and build encrypted comms network for at risk pop and social dissidents.
And to be frank. Currently, as our late stage capitalism is in open decay into fascism. I can say with all confidence, billionaires absolutely do have direct impact on policy, and not just that but funding for scientific endeavors as well.
Organize, protest, educate and perform all due praxis and direct action. But do know thy enemy and their levers of power.
Full agreement, comrade. I’m with the german free workers collective. Feel free to connect if you wish.
