On: Launch HN: Maritime Fusion (YC W25) – Fusion Reactors for Ships

[agentultra]

Good luck. I'd wager you'll end up pivoting to SMRs. They exist today. Are cheaper to produce. And their failure mode would be... capsizing the reactor at sea probably and running on stored diesel until you make it to port?

We've been running reactors on ships since the 50s after all.

[bananapub → agentultra]

> I'd wager you'll end up pivoting to SMRs. They exist today.

who is selling ~zero maintenance, mass-produced SMRs today?

[agentultra → bananapub]

I meant in that they could actually be built and working SMRs exist in labs and test facilities in greater numbers than fusion reactors. My local university has been running one for ages.

[ted_dunning → bananapub]

How is that an argument to avoid SMRs if magical thinking about fusion reactors is allowed?

[bananapub → ted_dunning]

all my other comments on this post are about how fusion doesn't exist and YC funding a Fusion Boating Company before anyone has ever generated any net electricty with fusion is deeply stupid.

SMR can be stupid and not exist too!