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Which fusion energy path will yield economic power first?

Poll ended at Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:50 am

Solar (Thermal)
3
27%
Solar (PV)
0
No votes
Solar (Satellite)
0
No votes
Tokamak
0
No votes
FRC (Tri-Alpha)
1
9%
DPF (Focus Fusion)
0
No votes
Polywell
7
64%
Other
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 11

KitemanSA
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Post by KitemanSA »

Which Fusion Energy Path will Yield Economic Power First?

By this I mean provide economically competative base-load power.

chrismb
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Post 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"].

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Post by tomclarke »

Todd's Thesis (viewable online):

http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11412

Best wishes, Tom

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