vansig wrote:
do remember that focus fusion power is entirely dispatchable: there need be no excess power, at all,
since you can adjust number of pinches/second as demand requires.
I thought there was an efficiency hit when running at less than 330hz?
vansig wrote: so, really, the question becomes
whether it is cheaper, or safer, to deliver a fusion generator, and install it, than to distribute power to a needy neighbour over wires.
… 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.
