Ist die Welt bereit für die transformative Kraft der Fusion? – Fusion ist die Zukunft des globalen Energiesektors und das erste Fusionskraftwerk soll in Kürze seinen Betrieb aufnehmen. – Der globale Wettlauf um die kommerzielle Fusion ist im Gange, während die fusionsbasierte Zukunft gerade erst beginnt.
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/01/fusion-energy-future/
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From the article
>Fusion is the future of the global energy sector — the near future. While it may not happen exactly as we’ve just described, the [first fusion power plant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHCFraq1SKQ) will almost certainly begin operations shortly after President-elect Trump’s second term expires.
Also from the article
>More than 40 fusion startups are speeding towards this goal. Commonwealth Fusion Systems will turn on a demonstration power plant, called SPARC, in 2027. Scientists expect it will first achieve net-positive energy production (Q>1) and eventually generate up to ten times more energy than it consumes or more (Q>10). This will be fusion’s Wright Brothers moment.
Lastly from the article
>The world’s mindset will shift from energy as a constraint to limitless energy, reshaping the geopolitics of energy in its wake. The jump from fossil fuels to fusion energy will inevitably be more profound than the jump from burning wood to burning fossil fuels.
>The global race for commercial fusion is on while the fusion-powered future is just beginning.
“Is the world ready for the transformative power of fusion” ? LOL! More like “is the world ready for many more decades of waiting” . And even if it does materialise, it’ll only be “transformative” for shareholder’s pockets. It’s not gonna be some magical infinite energy font. It’s not going to give us unlimited energy, or make fossil fuels obsolete, or anything like that. All it will be, is one more method of clean energy generation. That’s it.
The only people promising a fusion plant before 2040 are the kind of commercial operations that have promised such things since at least the 90s.
In general the reputable research groups believe there will be at least another research lab generation after ITER before we see any viable prototype plant. The UK’s atomic energy authority believes it can start work on a prototype by 2040 (thats start, not finish) and thats the most aggressive schedule I know of.
And by then renewables will be firmly entrenched and very very cheap. So even it works out fusion could end up an economic white elephant. They are already at or a little beyond economic tipping point.