Francesco Sciortino, co-founder and CEO of German startup Proxima Fusion, believes fusion energy can complement wind and solar power and become a “decisive building block” for Europe’s energy security.
“Fusion holds the potential to fundamentally transform the way we think about energy, changing the world from a place that’s controlled by those with reserves of oil and gas, to one where technology lets countries control their own fate,” he told TNW.
Fusion reactors for power generation are a true technology of the future, as they have always been, and will always be just 30 years into the future.
Sure. Maybe in twenty to thirty years. As it’s always been for the last fifty to seventy years.
On one hand, it’s true that there will be no near-term return. On the other hand, if nobody makes the investment because it is a large project, then it will never happen.
A society grows great when old men plant trees under whose shade they know they’ll never sit.
I didn’t say we shouldn’t invest in or continue to research it. But it’s not a solution (or even part of one) for anything in the foreseeable future.
Didn’t know fusion energy was a photovoltaics company. Guess that makes sense judging from the name.
Hope they deliver a lot of TWh/annum by next year.
This has always been a truth
