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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6409414" data-attributes="member: 177">Not true - some of them are already profitable, but we still aren't using them.&nbsp; And if we did use them, they'd become even more profitable, but still we don't use them.&nbsp; Discussing why that is goes to politics, I'm afraid.It isn't the fusion itself which saves us, it is the total package Lockheed is suggesting, which would be profitable enough to be a no-brainer, and get past many of our current political issues.&nbsp; Lockheed is talking about a 100 megawatt power plant on a truck.A quick web search tells me that an average, an American home utility customer uses about 11,000 kilowatt hours of electricity each year, so a sustained power use of about 1.3 kilowatts, on broad average.&nbsp; If my quick math is correct, then just one of Lockheed's reactors puts out enough power for tens of thousands of homes.&nbsp; It could power, for example, the entire residential customer base of the town I live in!Fuel costs would be the stickler here.&nbsp; We don't currently produce tritium on industrial scales....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6409414, member: 177"] Not true - some of them are already profitable, but we still aren't using them. And if we did use them, they'd become even more profitable, but still we don't use them. Discussing why that is goes to politics, I'm afraid. It isn't the fusion itself which saves us, it is the total package Lockheed is suggesting, which would be profitable enough to be a no-brainer, and get past many of our current political issues. Lockheed is talking about a 100 megawatt power plant on a truck. A quick web search tells me that an average, an American home utility customer uses about 11,000 kilowatt hours of electricity each year, so a sustained power use of about 1.3 kilowatts, on broad average. If my quick math is correct, then just one of Lockheed's reactors puts out enough power for [i]tens of thousands[/i] of homes. It could power, for example, the entire residential customer base of the town I live in! Fuel costs would be the stickler here. We don't currently produce tritium on industrial scales.... [/QUOTE]

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