Fusionskraftwerk in Virginia: Ein Schritt in Richtung unendlicher Energie – Bei Erfolg könnte es 150.000 Haushalte ohne die Umweltnachteile fossiler Brennstoffe mit Strom versorgen.
https://newatlas.com/energy/virginia-commonwealth-fusion-systems-power-plant/
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From the article
>After over 100 locations around the world were scouted, CFS chose a 100-acre (40.5-ha) plot of land in Chesterfield County in Virginia for the ARC – an acronym for „Affordable, Robust, Compact“ – to be built. This fusion power plant aims to produce a continuous 400 megawatts of clean, virtually limitless energy by the early 2030s.
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>[Fusion power](https://newatlas.com/energy/iter-private-companies-nuclear-fusion-collaboration/?itm_source=newatlas&itm_medium=article-body) represents a near-perfect energy solution. It’s abundant, clean, and sustainable. A single gram of fuel can produce as much energy as 10 tons (9 tonnes) of coal and could theoretically power one US home for 850 years while producing much lower levels of radioactive waste that poses a much lower risk than that produced in plants that rely on nuclear fission.
>Virginia’s ARC reactor project could pave the way for a better future. While some challenges still need to be overcome, if CFS is able to deliver on its promises, limitless, clean energy could step out of science fiction and into reality.
Someone notify Europe to swiftly regulate any such technology out of existence.
Can someone bum me out about this? I am getting optimistic.
This will not be used to power 150,000 homes but a single AI data center.
Every couple years we get teased about fusion energy.
SMR’s can be built now. LFTR’s could be researched developed approved and built before anything fusion is done to a profitable scale. LFTR’s then become burn up the 99.5% of the energy from the regular reactors.
Someone is still going to charge huge amounts to its customers
Sounds interesting.
But one thing they never address at any point in the video is; does it actually work? I think you have to assume that if it did actually work, they might have felt it worth mentioning that.
So it seems like it’s still at the ‚trust me bro‘ stage of development.
Either all other nations and organizations trying to build an economically viable Fusion reactor are slackers and losers, or this is a way too optimistic planning.
The record for Tokamak operations is still under a minute, and this “news” must have another purpose.
If a company invented a fusion power reactor…. what would it be worth?….would they keep the invention to themselves or would everyone have access to the invention?
All that REALLY needs to happen is for someone to make it work… without killing us all. Is that too much to ask?
So when we do have I finite clean energy… Will it be cheap for regular folk or will it be a monopoly again?
Infinite energy means infinite potential for altering the environment. I sincerely hope fusion never gets figured out, or we’ll move every grain of sand on this planet until we’ve massacred everything, pollution-free, and will wake up in a parking lot.