Discussion

Fusion Power Plant Simulator

caldis_chen: I think the first thing I thought when every man opened this project was: how to make this thing explode.

MisterTea: No melt down? This game sucks.On a serious note: I wonder how practical and safe it would be to build fusion pants close to city centers in order to harvest the excess heat for district heating. Would be a boon in e.g. NYC which already has a large district steam system. You can do cooling too, look up "steam absorption chiller."

advisedwang: > I wonder how practical and safe it would be to build fusion pants close to city centers in order to harvest the excess heat for district heatingThe cost/benefit for doing this seems pretty similar between fusion as gas power. We don't usually do this with gas, so I guess it's probably not viable for fusion.

ck2: fantastic PBS Space Time on what the last steps are going to be to finally make fusion possiblehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAJN1CrJsVE(fusion is -always- just a decade away, perpetually, lol)

JumpCrisscross: > fusion is -always- just a decade away, perpetuallyWasn't it perpetually 20 to 50 years away? I'm not an expert on the space. But new computational methods and magnets seem to be genuine steps forward.

ck2: the PBS Space Time episode suggests to me the housing walls might be the biggest problemit consumes itself or makes molecules that are destructive to the walls or insanely toxic so can never risk leakswhatever solution they come up with I suspect it will require a lot of constant maintenance on the first generation

cyberax: Fusion power plants can't "melt down". The amount of plasma inside the vacuum chamber is just around a gram.