Steven Cowley: Resource vs. Knowledge based energy
(3) CommentsThanks Mike for sending me the link to this Steven Cowley TED talk on fusion.
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For a more in depth discussion, start a thread in the forums.Ijit.
ITER is a giga-boondoggle.
DPF, as used by LPP.com, will be running in garage-size installations by 2015 or 2020. No waste, no steam turbines.
At about 5% of the output cost of tokamaks, and about 1% of the cost/W.
IF it works. If not, then what? What’s your backup plan? This is a proof of concept experiment. Eliminating other experiments is premature.
And ITER’s not that much money compared to many other things. We need a subsidy-o-meter or something to show where this falls relative to other things that worked or didn’t work. Oil and gas subsidies? War for oil? On the boondoggle-o-meter, ITER’s not so bad.
Housing and bank bailouts?
ITER may aspire to be a boondoggle, but it has some really stiff competition.
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