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US firm validates 1.1-GW nuclear fusion plant design to deliver 400 MW electricity
(interestingengineering.com)
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Extremely complex and expensive engineering and technology development for 400 MW of net electricity generation. Why not just build a 400 MW solar farm (with battery shortage, of course)? There's a massive, natural fusion reactor in the sky blasting the Earth with petawatts of energy every day, for absolutely free.
Because this is how research works and if we manage to get fusion power generation working well, we’ll have practically limitless clean energy available.
Thats what musk masturbates to...
Elon Musk doesn't give a fuck about the environment.
If musk gets off on limitless clean energy that's actually okay.
Oh the energy isn't for public usage but for clean AI. Pleps have to pay for the energy that can't be used to this end.
still better than AI powered from natural gas.
Because you can't stably power a grid on solar. You need to buffer with a source of energy not dependent on environment.
well, the idea that you can't is a far fetch. battery installments are growing exponentially; it's possible to produce clean hydrogen and burn it half a year later.
That said, fusion (and fission as well) isn't really a great buffer because you don't really want to be switching it on and off. It's so expensive that it's only really economical to run it constantly 24/7. So while fusion could be an awesome and perfectly consistent base load, it doesn't solve the energy variability problems.
Ultimately utilizing renewables just requires some amount of energy storage and/or quick to activate gas generators.