Wind Energy- a viable alternative to fossil fuels now?

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Mnementh said:

SvennoJ said:

 

Yeah it's taking a long time. Looks like South Korea is going to take the next step.
http://www.nature.com/news/south-korea-makes-billion-dollar-bet-on-fusion-power-1.12251
They hope to start delivering 1 giga watt of fusion generated power to the net in the 2030's

I really had big hopes in fusion energy 10 years ago. That has pretty much crashed, as I got confronted with the reality. 1 GW at 2030 would be a good achievement for fusion power, but to set it into relation: at the moment sourh korea builds an offshore-windpark that is planned to produce 2.5 GW of energy: http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/south-korea-off-shore-wind-farm/

You've heard about the ITER project, right?

Btw, the progress in fusion isn't really measured by the amount of GW produced, but rather how efficient the process is,  energy out divided by energy in. 

As far as I know, the JET project has produced around 70% of energy put in, but the ITER project aims to make 10 times the amount of energy of what was put in but that will be in 2030...