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Any good overviews on the different types of fusion and relative sense of liklihood to achieve their aims?

I know the throwaway comment is about fussion always being 30 years away but also does appear from the outside that hype/excitement is picking up for some of the recent advances in magnetic confinement fusion.



Now everybody is saying 10 to 15 years, so it looks like we're getting somewhere.


Or, they are starting to worry about getting their funding cut off because it will obviously never be commercially competitive with renewables.


General Fusion's demo plant should be operational in 3-4 years.


General Fusion's liquid-metal reaction bubbles, unlike tokamak and stellarator, might have a future.

It seems to me to depend on whether they can find a way to get the reaction rate usefully high.




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