Comments by "Withnail1969" (@Withnail1969) on "Why Private Billions Are Flowing Into Fusion" video.

The whole thing is a non starter. Even if the reaction itself produced overall net energy which so far isn't even close, the fuel would be far too expensive and energy intensive to supply. 60 years of research and we've got nowhere.
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@dangeary2134 There's no more time for research. The economy is collapsing now, not in 10 years.
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@gmork1090 We will have collapsed long before 2050. By 2030 there won't be much of an economy left or any research going on.
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@itmaslanka no they are not.
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@itmaslanka Nobody is mining anything on the moon and the government doesn't know any secret forms of energy production I'm afraid.
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@SignificantPressure100 Nobody is going to colonise the moon. nor would it 'solve the fuel problem'. there will never be commercially viable fusion. if it were possible, it would have happened decades ago.
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@darinhitchings7104 we cant do things like that. takes too much energy.
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@6Sparx9 The collapse is already underway, this will become clear by next spring. When your economy is collapsing, there are no resources spare to put into things like fusion research.
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@darinhitchings7104 i've heard of them, it's intermittent low intensity energy like all renewables. it won't solve our problems and we can't build, install or maintain any such equipment without fossil fuels.
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@tusharbhudia9421 there are not.
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@jeffpeachman It's an energy problem.
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@darinhitchings7104 It's a large number but still low intensity compared to fossil fuels. It's also intermittent. Low intensity widely dispersed intermittent energy that requires major investment to use is not going to save us.
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@deadralynx1288 mine what from the oceans? we cant mine anything from the ocean. fusion reactors also do not work and there is no sign of them producing net energy any time soon. you're lost in sci fi fantasies i'm afraid. What we need is energy like we have now that can be pulled out of the earth in large amounts and is ready or almost ready to burn.
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@deadralynx1288 at what cost per atom of hydrogen? do you understand that it takes enormous amounts of energy to do that?
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@toxicatedpro7182 far too expensive.
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@deadralynx1288 Expensive is what matters. Most resources will never be used because it would not be economic to extract them. We don't have robotic mining and chances are we never will. We will never mine the moon.
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@toxicatedpro7182 I'm not aware of anyone saying that at the time. Post an example of someone saying that 100 years ago.
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