Will it be too cheap to meter.🙄
That was the heady promise of the 1960’s. But theoretical and high energy physics died in the 1970’s with string theory. Practical nuclear power died with the stillborn death of thorium reactors in the early 70’s. And Three Mile Island about 1980 killed any chance that American light water technology would ever be too cheap to meter. Americans gave up on nuclear power too cheap to meter. I have heard that the Koreans make nuclear power plants that will produce electricity for .03@kwh. That’s not bad. I don’t know if it’s true.
The fusion guys are saying that in the first generation —they can deliver fusion-based electricity for .01@kwh.
That fall in price/power output is about like going from horses to horseless carriages.
A Washington-based fusion company has contracted with Microsoft to deliver that power in 2028. A couple of other fusion companies are promising to deliver subsequently.
It looks like some key technological advances have come together to accelerate the rate of development of fusion reactors from 20 years in the future —and always will be— to something very different.