The red states will take the fusion future. The blue states can have their antiquated windmills and eventually pay red states through the nose for fusion electricity to supplement their faltering grids. Works for me
Fusion is going to be a while. Trust me on this one. There are a few technical kinks to work out. After you figure out confinement and radiation damage resistant materials and energy conversion and all that you also have to figure out where you are going to get all the tritium Deuterium is “free” in seawater but tritium decays with a 12.6 year half-life and so there is no such thing as a tritium mine. You have to produce it. We know how to do that. You use a fission reactor, and since we are now talking fission, which is an actual as opposed to hypothetical “technology” why don’t you just do that since, as I said, fusion is going to be a while yet.
Red State Texas is kicking butts and taking names with our dominance of wind energy. At night wholesale West Texas power is near zero or negative due to wind being so plentiful. If you have a VPP you can access those single cent per kWh prices used to be Gridy as a RPP for $9.95 per month would broker wholesale for retail consumers but due to winter storm Uri $9000 per megawatt hour pricing cap the backlash of allowing retail power to be directly priced at the market rate some people who didn’t limit their consumption had $9 per kWh bills. Hey if you gamble in the market you pay the market call price it’s like any other commodity market there is risks know them.
The numbers speak for themselves, no emotions needed it’s cold hard math.
https://x.com/bpiatt/status/1882928783742931412
https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1964565400785736028
Wind is the second cheapest wholesale energy, it routinely is $10 or under solar at mid day sun is also under $10 on the regular. Every megawatt hour of either is 8,000,000-10,000,000 BTU of natural gas that one doesn’t have to be purchased at $4.35 MMBTU that means for every megawatt hour of wind or solar you don’t have to buy $43.50 worth of gas for a turbine to burn. It should be clear why gas turbines set the market at $50 per megawatt hour minimum to turn a profit. The 2026 Henry Hub gas prices are $4.35 at the hub that’s not piped and delivered to a power plant. Wind and solar cab both turn profits in the $10 per megawatt hour price range this is why Texas is the North American leader in both solar and wind we have huge deserts to our West and the high Plains are winds as FK.