Interview: The Fusion Future with Dennis Whyte | Particles of Thought

Nah. The whole thing is a ponzi scheme to keep building more fission reactors. And it has the exact same problem as gasoline and fission which is that compared to the high theorhetical energy density, the amount of energy that is actually captured to do work is relatively low. Because like a fission reactor from the 20th century, and a coal-fired plant from the 19th century, it is just a very expensive steam generator. Steam is not the future. And let's not even get into how much energy is required to START the damn things. Or the cost of manufacturing the components of the most expensive power generation method ever dreampt up. Meanwhile, quiety in the background, and despite the widespread FUD written by the oil and gas and nuclear industries, the cheapest power generation methods: solar and wind are ACTUALLY transforming the world. But I guess that story isnt sexy enough. People seem to just want to be scammed at this point, and this show seems happy to give a platform to all the big money scammers.

Ok gents nobody is confused over whether or not nuclear fusion is more power dense a process than is setting gasoline on fire.
And until you big brains figure out how to stop a few spare quadrillion neutron from turning the walls of your reactor into brittle, highly radioactive waste that needs replacement every 6 weeks (in an operating fusion reactor) then fusion will always be just out of reach.
Meanwhile we have enough fission fuel to power the united states through to the year 2800 or thereabouts but sure lets circle jerk about how great fusion power could be while we continue burning coal and nat. Gas.

I'm wondering if we are, in some way, narcissistic or supremacists in assuming that our solar energy is free and at no charge to us. We have thought this way in the past about things and, of course, now realize that was an improper way of seeing things.

I'll drink (a glass of water) to that!

Why don't we focus on clawing back the progress we lost from fossil fuel's decades' long campaign against fission first?

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I really liked how you broke down the future of fusion energy, its incredible power density, and Dennis Whyte's fascinating insights into clean energy innovation in this interview.

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Absolutely fantastic… thank you

Did they ever get to predicting when self-sustaining might be achieved? And how much further in the Net Positive direction before economic/energy/fuel refinement ROI?

Fission took the same path to be a viable energy source. Yes, most of the initial research was for weapons. But the proof of concept was a pile of bricks, hand-stacked around a lump of uranium. And controlling the reaction was adding or removing bricks. A far cry from a fission reactor today.