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    Dieses Unternehmen sagt, dass die Kernfusion endlich das Stromnetz mit Strom versorgen könnte – und zwar bald

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    1. Gari_305 on

      From the article

      Despite its futuristic power supply, the process of connecting a fusion power plant to the grid isn’t actually much different from connecting other types of power, whether it be conventional nuclear, coal or renewables, said Rob Gramlich, CEO of consulting firm Grid Strategies LLC. A 400-megawatt power plant is “not that big relative to other power plants on the system,” has similar capacity to a gas plant and is smaller than nuclear fission reactors and most coal plants. And the electricity itself is made similarly to existing technologies: Hot water creates steam to turn turbines that create electricity. The difference is just in how to heat the water.

      “I don’t think there’ll be anything super tricky,” Gramlich said. “I don’t see any reason why the grid couldn’t handle it.”

      In addition, the small amount of fuel needed for small nuclear plants — whether fission or fusion — give them the advantage of being easier to construct in more population-dense areas, closer to existing grid infrastructure, Gramlich said.

    2. Medical_Tailor4644 on

      It’s fascinating to see Commonwealth Fusion Systems moving so fast, especially with the Fall Line project in Virginia. Moving from experimental physics to actual grid-connection applications with PJM marks a huge shift for the industry. If they can maintain that plasma stability, it really changes the conversation around clean energy timelines.

    3. Syrairc on

      I would also say this if I was developing nuclear fusion and wanted investors.

    4. LapsedVerneGagKnee on

      “Now please give us money.”

      “Soon” is very relative with these sorts of unproven technologies.

    6. Fun_Comedian3249 on

      Fission power can give us all the power we need. The latest technologies can do so safely with very little waste and only minimal CO2 emissions (from construction, mining, etc but not power production). The biggest drawback is the upfront cost and time it takes to build reactors. These are way worse for fussion. So why not use the abundant energy fission offers us now?

    8. Au_Fraser on

      I promise im really close to the dickobliviator900partnerpleaser1500-900000ASecond_C_Um(S) i just rly just need a bit to get the computer part of the thing right. I swear

    10. Heavy_Carpenter3824 on

      Flying spaghetti monster says it will arrive soon and everyone gets a pony and 1 gazillion dollars. 

      I’ll believe it when I see it. 

    11. Eyedunno11 on

      CNN asked the probing questions nobody who knows anything about fusion is asking, like „is it gonna be hard to jack this into the grid?“ instead of the real questions, like „where are you gonna get all the tritium you need?“

    12. Brodiggitty on

      Nuclear fusion is 20 years away and always be.

      Also, nuclear fusion is 8 light minutes away and always will be.

    13. Magnomous on

      „Could“ and „Soon“

      We’ve had plenty of those in the past few decades. Still nothing.

    16. VRGIMP27 on

      I wish that we would build molten salt fission breeder reactors that run on thorium.

      Because of how the reaction works, it is a less stable reaction, i.e. it is not self-sustaining, so it’s much safer, much less likely to have meltdown scenarios.

      The trouble that it has is that because the reaction is not self sustaining, the plants have more periods of outage.

      I wonder why we do not build a thorium reactor together with enough grid scale battery storage so that those more frequent outages are not a problem anymore. Think an uninterrupted power supply for a PC, except these batteries would be a UPS for your nuclear reactor.

      When the plant is running you charge the batteries, when the plant is not running the grid is not interrupted.

      This allows us to do nuclear fission, and a kind of fusion by proxy without the extra difficulty of confinement, breakeven, super capacitors, embitterment and embrittlement etc.

      Then you re-process the waste with particle accelerators, or using the current fusion reactors just as a neutron source

    17. brainmydamage on

      Nuclear fusion has been coming „soon“ for fifty years. The same old scam is getting old.

    18. Westerdutch on

      Unicorns on treadmills could power the grid too – and soon if we find unicorns willing to walk on treadmills! There is not reason why you could not hook those up.

    20. zushiba on

      Isn’t this just the same as saying “If it produces power, connecting it to the grid isn’t that hard”, I could say the same thing about a bank of potato’s. In theory connect them to the grid to add my potato power isn’t that different than any other source of power.

      We already knew this.

    21. Ruthless4u on

      It’s a nice idea, but the wind and solar lobbyists will never let it happen on a significant scale.

    22. MustyInactivity2 on

      OMG finally some good news on the energy front! lowkey hoping this isnt just hype 🙏

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