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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
Canada is on the cutting edge of fusion research, but testing and production is being done in Japan and the UK.
We should be cutting past nuclear and hitting the next thing, but regulation and red tape is pushing our own best energy production to more forward thinking nations.
So, I'd fix that. Get fusion on line by 2050, so we can sell as much oil in the meantime as possible and still come out way ahead on climate concerns.
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The fastest way to get to fusion is to have an army of well funded nuclear scientists.
The only way that can happen is off the back of fission reactors.
Which, it needs to be said, are the safest and cleanest form of power generation in the world when not being run by the KGB.
Fusion reactors won’t be commercially viable for another hundred years.
In 2022, there was a fusion breakthrough that actually achieved ignition in a controlled system - that is, more energy than was created than was put into the system. First time it ever happened outside a hydrogen bomb.
2M joules went in, 3M came out. - enough to run a hair dryer for four minutes.
Which is great, except that the lasers that put the 2M joules into the device required 200M joules of electricity to do their job, which also required 600M joules of energy from coal/natural gas/whTever their local power station was using.
It isn’t a matter of “getting it ready by 2050.”