Reply To: minimal size device for focus fusion to work?

[Brian H]

zapkitty wrote:
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… and at the beginning of deployment you will have both the demand for any
excess power that you can spare and you will have the means to distribute it.

So again… the situation will resolve itself.

That is, unless we let our lords and masters deliberately screw us over in their
inevitable attempts to enrich themselves at our expense.

As I have opined elsewhere, Eric’s plan to make licenses available to all comers world-wide will ensure no jurisdiction dares block FF, or even drag its feet. The ones that do implement it will immediately acquire a decisive economic “competitive advantage”. Imagine two states, side-by-side, one with power at 0.5¢/kwh and the other at 5¢ or 15¢. Where ya gonna locate? And whose products and services will be lower priced? Across the board? The same applies internationally. Imagine the Chinese adding a 10X power-cost advantage to their labor cost edge.

As an instructive example, look up the power costs for aluminum refiners. It’s about 40% of total manufacturing cost. They will stampede to cut that by 10X, or even 5X (many get favorable concession pricing now, so the ratio would be lower than retail’s). Even steel production uses electric furnaces. The examples are myriad.