From 5df4ca9c7ca305cde985e96890607bccaf93833d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neale Pickett Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:40:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] add to my take --- content/letters/fusion.md | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/letters/fusion.md b/content/letters/fusion.md index 4b7e2d0..9902e81 100644 --- a/content/letters/fusion.md +++ b/content/letters/fusion.md @@ -29,8 +29,12 @@ for a short (less than 1 second) period of time, I believe. But in order to get 30 years of research, and massive amounts of electricity to set up the electromagnetic containment. For LANL to create a similar research fusion reactor, -they would need equally massive amounts of electricity. +which would take additional decades of research and billions of taxpayer dollars, +they would need massive amounts of electricity. This would require some mechanism to deliver the electricity, meaning even larger transmission lines than the proposed lines this writer objects to. -And even then, we're decades (at least) away from a fusion reactor -that can provide usable electricity. + +In addition, +constructing a massive unproven nuclear reactor that is best described as +"it works the same way as the sun" +might trigger a certain amount of backlash in the surrounding community.