Elon Musk has often spoken of his interest sustainable energy and its development. In a recent Twitter exchange, he discussed the relative merits of different energy sources.
What happened: Fusion is an expensive source of energy due to the difficulty of obtaining and transporting source fuel and maintaining the reactor Tesla, Inc. TSLA CEO said.
He was responding to a comment from one of his followers who suggested that nuclear fusion has the potential to provide limitless clean energy.
Musk continued, however, the sun is a thermonuclear reactor that doesn’t need to be refueled or serviced.
The billionaire is right here. Humanity has yet to effectively tap into fusion as an energy service, as fusion reactors consume far more energy than they produce, Futurism reported.
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However, his fellow billionaires have bet on fusion technology in the past. Amazon, Inc. AMZN founder jeff bezos has invested in Canadian company General Fusion, which was planning a large-scale nuclear fusion demonstration plant in Oxfordshire, UK, the BBC reported in June 2021.
Earlier this year, MIT announced that it had reached an agreement with Bill Gates-supported Commonwealth Fusion Systems for collaboration on fusion energy research and education activities.
Musk Bats for Solar and Wind Energy: The primary solution for a sustainable energy future is solar and wind power, with batteries to store the energy, Musk said.
These would have to be connected to conventional high-voltage lines, he said. More importantly, no unknown technology is required to tap into these energy sources and to store and distribute the energy harvested from these sources, he added.
“Hydro+geothermal+fission will also make non-trivial contributions,” Musk said.
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