Re: DON'T LOSE time and money around the fusion energy illusion and the lunar-helium-3 dream!!!

On 30 Aug, 15:58, gaetanomarano <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 29 Ago, 15:45, Doug <dlas...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Comments?

EXCELLENT ARTICLE, INDEED

however, the main problem of (earth or lunar fueled) fusion is that it
(simply) doesn't work

we need more energy NOW and we have just three alternatives:

COMMERCIAL FUSION REACTORS:
- don't exist and will not exist for several decades (or could never
exist if its problems can't be solved)
- very expensive infrastructures
- mid/long time to build each power plant
- mid/low price (earth) "fuel" (or high price lunar He3)

OIL, METHANE, COAL, NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS:
- they exist now
- mid/high priced infrastructures
- mid/long time to build each power plant
- high/growing priced "fuels"

RENEVABLE SOURCES:
- they exist now and the energy already is price-competitive
- mid/low priced infrastructures
- mid/low time to build each power plant
- VERY LOW or ZERO priced "fuels" (sun, wind, waves, heat)
- ZERO chemical pollution and ZERO nuclear waste

of course, all renevable energies will play a role in future, but wind
energy is the fastest way to have more energy NOW

if a country needs an extra GW of installed power, they must only buy
200 wind turbines and put them on an unused land

In fact wind power can work out quite expensive. There is the capital
cost and maintainance. In fact in Britain a lot of wind power
installations only exist because of subsidies.

In fact the most promising renewable is solar.

- Ian Parker

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