Massive solar -- both direct solar cells and solar-thermal -- is definitely part of the solution. But for high energy density mobile applications, it doesn't work as well -- e.g., powering a large ship (wet or space). Small fusion generators would be ideal in that niche. As the tech improves, it will probably outcompete everything within a few decades.

Assuming this is real, of course.

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Ian Whitchurch <ian.whitchurch@gmail.com> wrote:
Theres also the issue that the actually-existing nuclear industry has a horiffic record of delivering projects on budget, and the question of being absolutely reliant on government-provided insurance.

The single thing that reassures me is that as Lockheed Martin are a publicly listed company, if they fail to deliver in a spectacular manner, then they will get the crap suerd out of them by a bunch of lawyers.

Me, Im backing distributed production of daytime power - when most of it is needed - by mass produced solar panels installed at the customers premises.

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Craig Berry <cdberry@gmail.com> wrote:
If we had a means of generating effectively unlimited power at minimal cost, I think we could get past the misunderstandings.

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On Sat, 10/18/14, Kelly St. Clair <kellys@efn.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Fusion by 2025?
 To: tml@simplelists.com
 Date: Saturday, October 18, 2014, 10:16 AM

 Fusion, like
 "true" AI, has been ten years away since I was a
 kid.

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And, on top of that, to most folks "fusion power plant" is the same thing as "nuclear power plants".
And 'nuke' plants, with a few exceptions like France etc, are just too 'politically incorrect' (what would Al Gore say?) to really take hold.
Sad, but true...
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