Timeline for Fusion September 2024: Where are we with respect to "engineering break even"?
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| Sep 11 at 23:06 | answer | added | Maury Markowitz | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 6 at 19:51 | answer | added | Juan Ignacio Gil | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 6 at 10:37 | comment | added | Igor F. | In addition to the reasons you quote for $Q_{econ}$ vs. $Q_{eng}$, the cost of the fuel might play a role. For example, what is the cost of the diamond shells ("high density carbon", HDC) needed in inertial confinement fusion? I have no idea... | |
| Sep 5 at 23:28 | comment | added | Mark | Practical fusion is 20 years away, and has been since the 1940s. | |
| Sep 5 at 20:48 | comment | added | Sophie Swett | You write that it's "not clear to [you] what the distinction is between engineering break even and economic break even," but your description of that distinction seems very good! | |
| Sep 5 at 19:01 | answer | added | KDP | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 5 at 17:59 | comment | added | thegreatemu | Part of economic break even is recouping the costs of construction. If the profits from selling generated power are small compared to the initial investment, then the expected time-to-break-even is long. If that time is longer than the expected lifetime of the plant, you will never break even fiscally. | |
| Sep 5 at 15:00 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Sep 5 at 14:58 | history | suggested | Alan B | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Missing a 'we' and a '?' in the title.
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| Sep 5 at 14:53 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Sep 5 at 13:54 | answer | added | Andréas Sundström | timeline score: 11 | |
| Sep 5 at 12:26 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Sep 5 at 4:45 | answer | added | naturallyInconsistent | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 5 at 3:48 | answer | added | RC_23 | timeline score: 11 | |
| Sep 5 at 2:37 | history | asked | Jagerber48 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |