Reply To: Focus fusion and transportation

[Rematog]

Aeronaut,

You may be right that I’m on the high side on duration, but again, I could be on the low side of parts costs…..? I cetainly don’t have hard data. But, we’re nit picking the numbers, and the point was the order of magnitude. For exampe, if maintenance is only 60% of what I guesstimated, then cost per household would go from $200/month to $150/month. A nice savings, but not revolutionary.

And, I can see FF as revolutionary… but that it does not REQUIRE distributed installation to acheive this revolution. Which is good, as I think the regulators and/or public would be NIMBY to any nuclear reactor….and fusion is a nuclear reaction.

On another note, I don’t see utilites as providing core rebuilds. If this was done in a shop (nice thought there Aeronaut!), I’d guess it to be more likely factory offered or specialy technical companies. Utilites are regulated public business’s, with very high barriers to doing work in the un-regulated arena.

Rematog