Thank you for your submission of proposed new revolutionary nuclear fusion power technology. Your new technology claims to solve humanity's energy problems, produce unlimited clean energy, and is just months away from commercialization. Unfortunately, your technology will likely fail, because:
[ ] it requires materials that cannot be produced at any scale.
[ ] its energy gain (Q factor) is still substantially less than 1.
[ ] its plasma instabilities modes are completely unknown.
[ ] its plasma modeling behavior relies exclusively on numerical simulations.
[ ] it cannot sustain required plasma confinement criteria
[ ] it cannot handle the neutron flux without rapid degradation of components.
[ ] it requires magnetic fields stronger than currently achievable
[ ] it consumes more energy in cooling systems than it produces.
[ ] your claimed breakthrough violates fundamental physics.
[ ] the same approach was tried in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and abandoned each time for good reason
[ ] by the time it ships, renewable energy plus storage will be far cheaper.
[ ] your timeline has been "5 years away" for the past 50 years.
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Dear Nuclear Fusion Power Claimant
Thank you for your submission of proposed new revolutionary nuclear fusion power technology. Your new technology claims to solve humanity's energy problems, produce unlimited clean energy, and is just months away from commercialization. Unfortunately, your technology will likely fail, because:
[ ] it requires materials that cannot be produced at any scale.
[ ] its energy gain (Q factor) is still substantially less than 1.
[ ] its plasma instabilities modes are completely unknown.
[ ] its plasma modeling behavior relies exclusively on numerical simulations.
[ ] it cannot sustain required plasma confinement criteria
[ ] it cannot handle the neutron flux without rapid degradation of components.
[ ] it requires magnetic fields stronger than currently achievable
[ ] it consumes more energy in cooling systems than it produces.
[ ] your claimed breakthrough violates fundamental physics.
[ ] the same approach was tried in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and abandoned each time for good reason
[ ] by the time it ships, renewable energy plus storage will be far cheaper.
[ ] your timeline has been "5 years away" for the past 50 years.
[ ] your claims are lies.
Sincerely, The Energy Research Community