Brian H 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.
