This 34-year-old’s start-up backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos aims to make nearly unlimited clean energy

CNBC ^ | Published Fri, Feb 12 202110:13 AM ESTUpdated Fri, Feb 12 20218:21 PM EST | Catherine Clifford

[Sequoyah101]

fusion, only ten or twenty years away every year for the last 40 years or so.

Call me when you have something that works.

[rxh4n1]

Just recycling the same BS from the Carter Admin.

[Ozark Tom]

That analogy of rubber bands constricting a bit of jello comes to mind.

The best guess is a functioning Tokamak might run about the size of a football stadium.

[Ozark Tom]

Robert Bussard fessed up that magnetic confinement fusion was a stop-gap program to gain funding and keep the lab teams together. He couldn’t believe the program was given credence after he departed as an assistant director to the AEC.

[stig]

Doesn’t matter. You could have limitless free, no pollution energy, and the Marxists would regulate it away to state control. It is always about power and control. No solution that involves freedom and individual autonomy will ever be allowed.

Exactly, they want control and will change their narrative to take away Freedom and give them more control.

[Trinity5]

I’ll assume you didn’t read the article or understand Fusion. There is no “extra” energy to do that. Its all used to create more Fusion.

[Red Badger]

In 30 years..............