On: US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved

[panosfilianos]

This seems interesting but not especially impactful.

For me, the question here is: can we get our energy to cost 90% less than it did?

Don't get me wrong, I recognise that this is still a huge win (especially environmentally) and that it can have huge runway effects (eg. much more effective decentralization etc.) but it's quite interesting on how we can get these billions of people out of poverty first (or during).

[nebolo → panosfilianos]

While not 90%, transmission and distribution are around 40% of the cost of retail electricity, so lowering those substantially would go a long way.