UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't
UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't
UPDATED: STEP sucked up £220 million in 2022, and it's still not apparent what that accomplished
Not entirely sure how much the register thinks it costs.
To design the first ever commercial man made star. But 220 m for such new science. Designed by researchers and specialists in a brand new field. Seems pretty bloody cheap to me.
As for building it being a pipe dream. We are far more prepared for it then we were the first fission power plants. Without some risk progress stops.
Will it cost more. Of course. But it is also the future of energy independence. And based on the first successful smaller design. So far from a pipe dream.
Man, just when I'd bought all those solar panels.
Solar is still worth it. More so at current prices.
Fusion or fission is the cleanest safest way to match demand when wind or sun do not. At least in a nation we're we lack the space to build gravity fed storage.
Be that as it may, I’ve been hearing that (cold) fusion is just 30 years away for about 40 years now. I appreciate the effort but simply burning money would probably have generated lots more energy than fusion.
Grumpy whining aside, the problem here isn’t the expensive research per se, but more that STEP can’t explain where all the money is going into:As for what STEP has done to encourage that added investment, that's anyone's guess - by all accounts it doesn't seem like a lot has happened with the project of late.
Only joking. We're offgrid anyway, so unless they can figure out a tiny, cheap and quiet one I can buy off the shelf some time soon I will be solar for a while to come!
Panels have become ridiculously cheap per kwh. I was looking for some more recently and they had halved in price in the space of a few years while everything else has almost doubled.
I'd love to see more innovation in mechanical storage.
Just point them at the fusion reactor once it's ready.
what is that a picture of? some generated sloppy shit? I don't see it anywhere in the actual article.
No idea was not me but auto added.
If you hit the science tab. You will see the register uses the image to top Thier headline.