Tulse wrote:
success in one fusion endeavor would breed it everywhere.
I very much doubt that’s true for Big Fusion if LPP or EMC2 or Tri-Alpha or General Fusion or any of the other low-cost “alt-fusion” approaches succeed. Who is going to pay tens of billions for a huge facility to do what someone has accomplished for a few million in the equivalent of a garage?
The big budgets are consumed by cryogenic electromagnets, which give Polywell and the CBFR the ability to scale output with magnet size. Since Polywell’s funding is from the US Navy, they’d rather make 50MW or whatever a ship’s type needs using a single plant rather than stack 5MW to 25MW modules.
Win for all, and all for win.
