Commercially viable and ready to take orders; distribution is subject to so many things I can’t even begin to predict.
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Yeah. Probably not going to happen but I have nothing against being surprised.
We will build a lot of fission reactors tho.
Fission : Fusion :: Steam Engine : IC Engine
Great solution for now but once you see where things are headed it will be outdated.
Extremely bullish on fusion, if you can’t tell.
Distribution is relatively simple once it’s manufacturable. Can be integrated into any appropriate existing grid connections (shuttered coal plants for example). That bypasses most of the annoying lead time involving permitting. But permitting can also be accelerated with $$.
In fact, one of the largest steel producers is already lining up to have a fusion plant built onsite of their manufacturing facility to drop their costs for their electric arc furnaces. Any industry that consumes power en masse is likely to want cheapest power possible. https://nucor.com/news-release/20126
Building a power plant onsite bypasses a lot of the hurdles of cheap power on the grid. How soon till one of the big Bitcoin mining groups or treasuries start investing in building their own power generation to drive down cost of mining?