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by Nihilartikel
3256 days ago
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Shees... I really wish they would cancel it already. All technical and scientific concerns aside, the patient is already dead of cost sickness, and is only kept alive by pumping money into its scabrous leaking veins. If they took even 1/10th of the money and spread it around some of the more promising, smaller, non-tokamak, scrappier fusion projects like tri-alpha, polywell, or the Lockheed skunkworks one that actually have a plausible path to power generation I think that the money would make a better impact.
Even next gen fission would be a better investment. India and China are doing very nice things with thorium these days...
Too bad they'll never turn off the pork faucet until forced. |
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Those other approaches are far less proven than the ITER design (through its precursors like JET). I'm not saying that some of them won't outpace ITER eventually, but as far as things go that are actually being built ITER is still ahead of the pack.