Renewables do not have a long-term future.

Eric Jensen
1 min readJan 14, 2022

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Solar and wind renewables are oversold.

General Fusion reactor for magnetized target fusion — From Kyle Pearce from Vancouver, Canada

There are private ventures that, if successful, will generate commercial electricity by using nuclear fusion. This should happen within 10 years, perhaps within 5 years. The cost of the electricity production will be low, perhaps eventually as low as $10/MWh ($0.01/kWh).

The private venture fusion reactors are likely to be small and installed as banks of reactors in small power stations with a peak capacity of just a few hundred megawatts. A city of a million people could be expected to have several of these small fusion power stations within the city limits. This would improve electricity reliability and minimize electricity distribution cost. Domestic power charges should be under 2 cents per kWh.

Because of distribution cost, the domestic charges for solar and wind renewable electricity will never be as low as 2 cents per kWh.

Sometime in the 2030s, small fusion power stations are likely to be a reality causing solar and wind renewable electricity production to be in terminal decline.

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Eric Jensen

Now retired for ten years after doing 40 years of professional civil engineering in Western Australia. In part, this has made me very interested in AVs.