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This isn’t about fusion, but fission. I would assume that Gates being a famously bright man, understands that none of us are seeing fusion power in our lifetimes. Of course Gates is backing an extremely challenging form of breeder reactor called a TWR. Still, any progress on nuclear at this point is good, and desperately needed.

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Oh okay I thought Terra power was working on this magnetic tape thing

It's called ybco tape

Nah different technology. The tape is used in prospective fusion designs like MIT SPARC. Terra power have a fission design called a traveling wave reactor.

Thanks! I will look it up

> This isn’t about fusion, but fission. I would assume that Gates being a famously bright man, understands that none of us are seeing fusion power in our lifetimes

And the reason for that is because the funding for fusion is below the "fusion never" stage.

https://imgur.com/sjH5r

If Gates were really interested, he'd commit a billion dollars every single year to fusion. That would roughly speaking quadruple the amount of funding driving fusion forward.

And, to top it off, even if you didn't get fusion you'd start getting real engineering spinoff technologies that you could use in other facets of power generation, transmission, storage, etc.

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