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dash wrote:
I think you’d see a recycling of the long distance power lines. The copper in the wires will be worth more and more as the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China) continue to increase consumption. The perfect place for a FF device would be the endpoint in the cities where all the transformers are, stepping down the voltage.
Also there will be a need for more land. The strip of land the power lines occupy will be more valuable, wasting it on power distribution won’t be reasonable.
I still like http://www.nanosolar.com, but they’re not real until I can go buy some of their cells — and I can’t today.
-Dave

Well another point for FF advantage. But this would require decentralizing the infrastructure which is also a huge amount of work. We are talking about that more in a different thread. Look at the end.
https://focusfusion.org/index.php/forums/viewthread/181/P45/

Nanosolar is sold out for this year, but they are ramping production to unprecedented levels, so I would expect you to be able to do that in a year or two.

Unfortunately the “save the world” technology always looks just around the corner. This is why I understand the politicians who are pushing for awfully but proven technology implementations instead, like fission. This is why practically all the wind turbines in wind-farms are old-school design, when there is a huge potential in new generation of wind turbine designs.