Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

I'm not quite that pessimistic; after all, it only took a few decades from the first airplane to space travel. But it will certainly take a long time until it is ready for mass production.

Maybe the energy problem will be solved soon anyway, if the approach of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory can be pursued further, who, as some of you probably already know, have succeeded in gaining more energy from nuclear fusion than used. No radioactive waste was produced in this process. It is exactly such news that gives me hope that we can solve our problems if we invest sufficiently in education, training, research, and development and do not leave too many people behind.

Yes, but only with the energy directly applied to the nuclei in relation to the energy directly generated there.

The Q(total) is lousy. That is the ratio that determines how much more energy a power plant outputs than you have to put in.

It was lousy, is lousy, the path is still very long. The fact that an “overall Q” is simply presented in the public presentation by the research institutes has to do with competing for research funds.

My tip: Nothing will happen there in under 50 years. And I am an optimistic type.

The tip about 50 years is also already 50 years old ;-) Nuclear fusion is a pipe dream. Maybe it will come true someday, but you definitely can't count on it. One step has been made forward, but that's it.

My tip: Nothing works under 50 years. And I am an optimistic guy.

I am even more optimistic, maybe a UFO will fall from the sky, with a working fusion reactor :rolleyes:, with blueprints :cool:

I am not, after all, it only took a few decades from the first airplane to space travel.

So 53 years, maybe you are significantly younger than I am, but I consider it unlikely that I will live to be over 90. And for widespread adoption, I also find 50 years too optimistic. And I am usually rather optimistic about technological development.

For my 35 years, a life expectancy of another 45 years is currently calculated. So it’s getting tight, but 50 years is not entirely unlikely. Let's see, sometimes things really happen quite quickly.