Beyond the money. What are some of the biggest problem’s you see in starting a company like this? Does the future of energy have room for a high risk venture like this? Thanks.
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Nuclear isnt as bad as it's public perception of it but nobody wants it in their backyard. It would probably be years of dealing with government bs to approve it.
There are a lot of little engineering issues in fusion. So I can see how someone could start a firm to tackle on another. I doubt that you’d raise money to actually build the whole thing, that’s too much to chew. Although if we sent amount of money we waste on other shit to fusion research maybe we’d get it working soon. Idiotic projects like flying to mars are able to raise money yet something so practical as fusion is abandoned. We’re stupid
If solved, fusion can satisfy Humanity’s energy demand for a long time and can lessen our impact on the environment. I’d like to think we could find $20Billion+ to solve this....so I totally get what you’re saying.
You need to come up with a piece of a puzzle that you can promise to solve. You need some scientists who’d support you then go to guys like Gates to raise money. Google is wasting money on bogus quantum computing fad, clearly there’s some appetite from money bags to spend on high risk engineering projects
Presumably tons of regulations around trying to sell to an international market, hire international engineers.
@Lockheed. How’s your compact fusion reactor going? OP wants to get into this space and can use some advice. OP you might want to tag some relevant companies Here. I know BillG has his ear on nuclear. Not sure about fusion because it’s so damn hard and obvious risk of catastrophic disaster. But his fission reactor company looks super promising (terrapower)
What catastrophic disaster in fusion? The worst case will be like a steam pipe explosion
Well. It’s far less riskier than fission. But containment needs to be extremely precise. And very little fuel can ever be present so there’s only milliseconds to microseconds of fusion happening. There’s little to no runaway effect here when correctly done. But I sure wouldn’t want to be near one.
You can find some cheap land around Chernobyl to do this. It you screw up you are only causing more radio activity in an already intense radio activity zone. And btw, good luck trying to control fusion, hope you don't turn our planet into a little 🌞.
This one require quite a bit of capital to get started. A lot harder than making the next tinder or something that you can do with a laptop and some time. What angle do you have that will make someone want to give you $$$?
The big problems are regulatory and funding. Solar and wind are getting cheaper by the day. As is storage.
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