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Do you think that Tokamak will ever deliver cost-effective electricity?

I support research in nuclear fusion, but I feel like we should not be doing it by giving huge amounts of money to one big project. I think a research prize would be much better option, or if that is not plausible, giving small amounts of funding to many different startups.

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so I worked on ITER and did the structural analysis for the Tokamak Assembly Preparation Building,

there is a lot about that project that can be managed better, a lot of "re inventing the wheel" etc go

So the honest answer is that I don't know. The scientists reckon it will break the Q>1 factor and probably get to around 6-10.

That being said, the money to finish the project is the equivalent of a few weeks of the cost of the War in Afghanistan.

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