Reply To: Global Warming

[Henning]

That’s why I titled it “D-T-Fusion Illusion”. There is no such thing as tritium in consumable amount.

Aneutronic fusion is still a dream. We’re working on it, but the chance of success is maybe 0.00001%, 1%, 50% depending on whom you ask. So take the realistic/optimistic middle value of 1% (I’m personally much more optimistic, but that doesn’t count).

This article rules out neutronic fusion in a industrial fashion, at least its easiest way to do it (D-T-Fusion). This leaves you with D-D-Fusion. Back to specs.

I haven’t looked into thorium fission (you’ve talked about it here somewhere), but this leaves you with similar problems as uranium fission. I don’t wanna discuss it here, it’s probably ten times better. Good. Accepted.

The problem with thorium fission is, it doesn’t feed any electricity into the grid yet. You’re free to point out an experimental reactor (or actual productive reactor) to prove me wrong. But that’s not the point of this discussion.

The main points are:

* Not enough uranium for newly constructed reactors – so stop construction of new uranium fission reactors

* D-T-Fusion will never be feasible – so stop ITER or switch to D-D-Fusion

* He3 (the isotope) farming on the moon is pretty much bullshit because the transportation costs outweight the benefits by several orders of magnitude

I took the opportunity to add the last point. Just to squash any high flying dreams.