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Fusion Energy Poll
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 4:50 am
by KitemanSA
Which Fusion Energy Path will Yield Economic Power First?
By this I mean provide economically competative base-load power.
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:05 am
by chrismb
Deja vue? We had similar before, no? Surely the answer is that solar already can, but its issue is capacity (and, as all of them, also time-scale of return), not efficiency of production. I can now buy polycrystallines that, providing they last 20 years without servicing, beat base-load.
Excepting solar; as in previous poll, I would say it will be a device as Todd Rider describes in section E.2.2 of his thesis ["Potential New Approaches..">"Closed Orbit, High Velocity Resonant Device"].
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:28 pm
by tomclarke
Todd's Thesis (viewable online):
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11412
Best wishes, Tom