[jason0597]

I am genuinely surprised that there is so much interest in the comments here and excitement about fusion energy powering the future. Yet I see surprisingly few numbers or physics being discussed. Kind of disappointed for a forum that is supposedly technically-minded and able to speak mathematics.

There was this great MIT paper [1] published a while back that's still to be rebuked, talking about the serious technical challenges. Furthermore, there's Maury Markowitz's blogs that have been around for more than a decade showcasing why economically future can never work competitively on the grid [2].

Fusion is great science, it may eventually return a net positive in energy, but it has so many problems that make it impossible to use commercially.

[1]: http://orcutt.net/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Trou...

[2]: https://matter2energy.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/why-fusion-wi...

[lven]

One morea article worth reading about the con-fusion https://lvenneri.com/blog/ConFusion