Reply To: Fusion Oil

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Phil’s Dad wrote:

I don’t have the numbers in front of me, but I think it is a fair assumption that globally we consume more than 10% of our energy in the form of electricity. So if you install 10 times the current capacity in form of FF reactors these reactors would be able to power EVERYTHING that needs energy today.

A perfectly sensible observation but the real expansion will be those things we don’t do today because the energy cost is too high. (In some places that includes living beyond 40 but that is not what I am getting at here). Imagine what could be done if energy was not a constraining factor.

Yes, of course, other raw materials and scarce resources kick in and will be a big issue – but again I say; Imagine. 🙂

How much of what we regard as waste material could be recycled if-only energy were a small fraction of its current cost?
Then I could obtain high purity bulk samples of each element/isotope in any waste material, by ionizing it and streaming it through a magnetic field.

What does the supply and demand curve for energy really look like?