Post by Wayne Hall on Sept 28, 2017 11:24:29 GMT -5
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WH: Warwick Michael Dumas, I see that you are associated with a group that is persuaded of the potential of nuclear fusion to solve the energy crisis. focusfusion.org/meet-the-team/ If this is true, how can this perspective be introduced into the policies of DiEM25?
This subject, I think, is a necessary starting point for a debate on climate and energy in DiEM25 because any attempt to start from the IPCC, the Paris Climate Agreement, climate change etc. etc. will at this stage get bogged down in Trump vs anti-Trump, Democrat vs Republican, "skeptic" vs anti-skeptic dialogues of the deaf.
WMD: From Focus Fusion Society point of view, they are seeking political and social recognition of alternative fusion as a possibility. Alternative as in not ITER, which takes up almost all state funding of fusion, itself only a small amount. There are multiple alternative efforts as you know. I think it's good if people talk about it, because it could become a reality. Politically there are opportunities and risks. The opportunity is to increase and diversify state funding -- people like Alan Grayson in the US have been our supporters in this -- and if a working prototype comes along, to leap on it and get it to commercialisation if necessary. The risk is that even with technology that is 'too cheap to meter', the political clout of oil can overcome market economics and see fossil fuels subsidised to outcompete and delay the uptake of fusion power.
There is an appeal beyond people that are motivated about climate change. Overpopulation is arguably the world's biggest coming problem, and the only way to keep a lid on population is through development, a 4th industrial revolution that lifts the living standards of the majority world beyond recognition. The goal of the idealists in fusion is to do that, so it captures the imagination of people that mostly care about world development.
This has some of the current projects listed (ranked various ways). He didn't include the UK private effort ST40, it has been a nascent thing. It's from a series of 6 clips by my employers
WH: Warwick Michael Dumas, I see that you are associated with a group that is persuaded of the potential of nuclear fusion to solve the energy crisis. focusfusion.org/meet-the-team/ If this is true, how can this perspective be introduced into the policies of DiEM25?
This subject, I think, is a necessary starting point for a debate on climate and energy in DiEM25 because any attempt to start from the IPCC, the Paris Climate Agreement, climate change etc. etc. will at this stage get bogged down in Trump vs anti-Trump, Democrat vs Republican, "skeptic" vs anti-skeptic dialogues of the deaf.
WMD: From Focus Fusion Society point of view, they are seeking political and social recognition of alternative fusion as a possibility. Alternative as in not ITER, which takes up almost all state funding of fusion, itself only a small amount. There are multiple alternative efforts as you know. I think it's good if people talk about it, because it could become a reality. Politically there are opportunities and risks. The opportunity is to increase and diversify state funding -- people like Alan Grayson in the US have been our supporters in this -- and if a working prototype comes along, to leap on it and get it to commercialisation if necessary. The risk is that even with technology that is 'too cheap to meter', the political clout of oil can overcome market economics and see fossil fuels subsidised to outcompete and delay the uptake of fusion power.
There is an appeal beyond people that are motivated about climate change. Overpopulation is arguably the world's biggest coming problem, and the only way to keep a lid on population is through development, a 4th industrial revolution that lifts the living standards of the majority world beyond recognition. The goal of the idealists in fusion is to do that, so it captures the imagination of people that mostly care about world development.
This has some of the current projects listed (ranked various ways). He didn't include the UK private effort ST40, it has been a nascent thing. It's from a series of 6 clips by my employers