Why are we wasting so much tax payers' money on unreliable, environmentally harmful and unsustainable renewable energy?
"A startup chasing the dream of plentiful, safe, carbon-free electricity from [nuclear] fusion ... has settled on a site, timetable, and key technology for building its compact reactor. Flush with more than $200 million from investors, including Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy, 3-year-old Commonwealth Fusion Systems [a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology] announced ... that later this year it will start to build its first test reactor, dubbed SPARC, in a new facility in ... Massachusetts ... The company says the reactor, which would be the first in the world to produce more energy than is needed to run the reaction, could fire up as soon as 2025. ...
Commonwealth is assembling its first nearly full-scale magnet [made from high-temperature superconductors] and hopes to test it in June [2021]. ...
Together, manufacturers of ReBCO tape were only producing a few hundred kilometers per year, and Commonwealth needs 500 kilometers just to build its first test magnet. ..."
Commonwealth is assembling its first nearly full-scale magnet [made from high-temperature superconductors] and hopes to test it in June [2021]. ...
Together, manufacturers of ReBCO tape were only producing a few hundred kilometers per year, and Commonwealth needs 500 kilometers just to build its first test magnet. ..."
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