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11674495 No.11674495 [Reply] [Original]

Is ITER the SLS of fusion power?

>> No.11674517

>>11674495
but sls isnt an international project

>> No.11675226

ITER is more like the V2, an early project to see how viable the idea is.

>> No.11675228

>>11674495

Can you imagine any other way to employ all of those poor impoverished high-energy physicist pHds and finally give some meaning to their decade-long suffering?

>> No.11675257

>>11674495
>promised to produce didly shit
I dont know what is going on

>> No.11675771

I'm confident anti ITER shills either have zero understanding of nuclear physics or literally paid oil niggershills.

>> No.11676274

ITER is extremely expensive. Been in development for decades, and yet it won’t really achieve anything other than “learning lessons.” Which means there will be decades of development after ITER to do another lessons learned shit. The toroidal reactor is a dead-end project. There are other interesting methods of achieving fusion that are cheaper:
https://newatlas.com/energy/hb11-hydrogen-boron-fusion-clean-energy/
Also that money would be better served in creating optimized fission reactors.

>> No.11676283

>>11676274
hB fusion is a meme

>> No.11676512

>>11676283
It might be, because it hasn’t been tested. But if it can be tested for a fraction of the cost of ITER and fraction of the time, you go that route

>> No.11676518

It’s done it’s purpose of supplying grants to everyone involved

It doesn’t have to ever produce meaningful results

>> No.11676526

>>11676512
> But if it can be tested for a fraction of the cost of ITER and fraction of the time, you go that route
That sounds like even more gov fund leeches.