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Tangent: there is little reason to believe that fusion will provide cheap power.


Why is it so?


It’s a complicated engineering system with high capex to drive a steam turbine. It’s hard to compete with something like that in a market increasingly driven by intermittent periods of essentially free energy. Too cheap to meter didn’t work out for nuclear either.




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