As another article on fusion pointed out, can't remember where, even if we finally get a working power plant going it will still be as expensive as building a fission plant, if not more. So the "free endless energy" doesn't quite pan out, though there is an inevitability about fusion once uranium and thorium supplies are tapped (which is hundreds of years away I think). And yeah the tritium problem, most of our supply is half-lifing away as we speak and we'll need more heavy water fission reactors or mining the moon to resupply the stockpile (though one fusion reactor design breeds it's own tritium...and there are other fuels but they require even higher plasma temperatures to ignite).
Yeah, good points, a lot has to get sorted out. Binging things to commercialization these days is such a challenge, it feels like one of those "I'll believe it when I see it" type things.
As another article on fusion pointed out, can't remember where, even if we finally get a working power plant going it will still be as expensive as building a fission plant, if not more. So the "free endless energy" doesn't quite pan out, though there is an inevitability about fusion once uranium and thorium supplies are tapped (which is hundreds of years away I think). And yeah the tritium problem, most of our supply is half-lifing away as we speak and we'll need more heavy water fission reactors or mining the moon to resupply the stockpile (though one fusion reactor design breeds it's own tritium...and there are other fuels but they require even higher plasma temperatures to ignite).
Yeah, good points, a lot has to get sorted out. Binging things to commercialization these days is such a challenge, it feels like one of those "I'll believe it when I see it" type things.