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AeronautTulse wrote:
At $50 million per 25MW electric output, it is only 20-40X as expensive as FF.
It’s also arguably far farther along to a commercial product, and the technological issues are not as fundamental. It’s pricing is also less speculative than for FF. Don’t get me wrong, I have every hope that LPP succeeds, and that it has a product soon. But in the competitive space, Hyperion is a similarly-sized solution, and will be to market much more quickly. Of course, if FF actually proves itself, the competitive space will change very rapidly — it is hard to imagine any other technology being able to compete if LPP (and/or some of the other aneutronic fusion companies) produce a working fusion generator.
Think nuclear waste proliferation, and contrast that with all the groups who allegedly performed (and charged for) doing due diligence to fund Hyperion development. There sure are going to be a lot of embarrassed “experts” & “leaders” if FF delivers as promised.